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Lars Ahlfors

1907 - 1996

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Lars Valerian Ahlfors (18 April 1907 – 11 October 1996) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his textbook on complex analysis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lars Ahlfors has received more than 191,067 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Lars Ahlfors is the 90th most popular mathematician (up from 203rd in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Finland (up from 45th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Lars Ahlfors ranks 90 out of 1,004. Before him are Felix Klein, Ctesibius, Alexander Friedmann, Stanislaw Ulam, Katherine Johnson, and Paul Erdős. After him are Adrien-Marie Legendre, G. H. Hardy, Siméon Denis Poisson, Leopold Kronecker, Gabriel Cramer, and Guillaume de l'Hôpital.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Lars Ahlfors ranks 22. Before him are Frank Whittle, Junji Nishikawa, Jacques Tati, Lin Biao, Hideki Yukawa, and Robert A. Heinlein. After him are Yang Shangkun, Bhagat Singh, Fred Zinnemann, John Bowlby, Horst Wessel, and Nikolaas Tinbergen. Among people deceased in 1996, Lars Ahlfors ranks 17. Before him are Joseph Brodsky, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Whittle, Tadeusz Reichstein, René Lacoste, and Paul Erdős. After him are Silvio Piola, Babrak Karmal, Gene Kelly, Adolf Galland, Sergiu Celibidache, and Joan Clarke.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Lars Ahlfors ranks 14 out of 751. Before him are Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888), Mika Waltari (1908), Aki Kaurismäki (1957), Tarja Halonen (1943), Urho Kekkonen (1900), and Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870). After him are Helene Schjerfbeck (1862), Elias Lönnrot (1802), Mikael Agricola (1510), Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895), Risto Ryti (1889), and Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (1861).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Finland

Among mathematicians born in Finland, Lars Ahlfors ranks 1. After him are Rolf Nevanlinna (1895), Anders Johan Lexell (1740), Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (1870), and Hjalmar Mellin (1854).

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