Lars V. Ahlfors was a mathematician whose major area of research was complex analysis. In 1936, he was one of the first to receive a Fields Medal. Often considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize, the Fields Medal is given every four years to a...

1907-1996 Finnish-American Mathematician Finnish-born mathematician Lars V. Ahlfors became one of the first two people to receive the Fields Medal in 1936. In awarding the medal, the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) cited Ahlfors's...

Lars Valerian Ahlfors (April 18, 1907 – October 11, 1996) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. He was born in Helsinki, the son of a Professor of Engineering. He...

Lars Valerian Ahlfors, a former Harvard mathematician and the first recipient of the Fields Medal in mathematics, died of pneumonia Friday in Pittsfield, where he lived in retirement. He was 89. An expert on complex analysis, a fundamental subject with applications in physics...

BERLIN LARS RAMBERG PALAST DER REPUBLIK It's hard to miss Lars Ramberg's Palast des Zweifels (Palace of Doubt), 2005. The word ZWEIFEL (doubt)-written in three-story-tall letters sculpted in aluminum and filled with white neon-tube lighting-glows from atop the empty Palast der...