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Lars Valerian Ahlfors
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Born April 18, 1907 • Helsinki • Finland
Died October 11, 1996 (aged 89) • Pittsfield • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1936)
Subjects Of Study Riemann surface

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Maryam Mirzakhani
Maryam Mirzakhani
Iranian mathematician
Simon Donaldson
British mathematician
John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
American mathematician
Hörmander, Lars V.
Lars V. Hörmander
Swedish mathematician
Atle Selberg
American mathematician
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
British mathematician
Alain Connes
Alain Connes
French mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
Grigori Perelman
Russian mathematician
Enrico Bombieri
Italian mathematician
Stanislav Smirnov
Russian mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
Serre, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Serre
French mathematician
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Wendelin Werner
French mathematician
Mikhail Gromov
Mikhail Gromov
Soviet-born French mathematician
Jesse Douglas
American mathematician
Ngo Bao Chau
Ngo Bao Chau
Vietnamese-French mathematician

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