1936 Fields Medal (1)

Reason for Award

Awarded medal for research on covering surfaces related toRiemann surfacesof inverse functions of entire andmeromorphic functions. Opened up new fields of analysis.

Laureates

Lars Valerian Ahlfors,

Finland Finland

Other works in the same year

Did important work of the Plateau problem which is concerned with finding minimal surfaces connecting and determined by some fixed boundary.

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