This book presents lectures given by leading specialists on the work of Lars Ahlfors. It comprises an overview of his essential contributions to complex analysis. Written from a modern perspective in contemporary language, this volume bridges the gap between Ahlfors's achievements and today's developments. It offers a good introduction for the researcher and for others who would like to learn more about this area of mathematics.

A publication of the Bar-Ilan University. Distributed worldwide by the AMS.

Readership

Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in complex analysis and related fields; physicists; engineers.

Table of Contents

• R. Brooks -- Lars Ahlfors (1907-1996)
• W. Abikoff -- Geometric finiteness and rigidity of Kleinian groups
• R. Brooks -- Some geometric aspects of the work of Lars Ahlfors
• A. Eremenko -- Ahlfors' contribution to the theory of meromorphic functions
• H. M. Farkas -- Weierstrass points and the theta divisor
• S. L. Krushkal -- Spaces of Riemann surfaces
• M. Sodin -- Lars Ahlfors' thesis
• U. Srebro -- Extremal lengths and quasiconformal maps