Rolf Herman Nevanlinna ( Finnish . Rolf Herman Nevanlinna , September 22, 1895, Joensuu - May 28, 1980, Helsinki ) is the Finnish mathematician best known for his work on complex analysis .
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Career
- 3 Scientific contribution
- 4 Recognition and memory
- 5 Proceedings
- 6 notes
- 7 References
Biography
Rolf Herman Nevanlinna was born into a family of mathematicians. His father, Otto Nevanlinna ( Fin. Otto Nevanlinna ), both uncles (paternal) and brother Fritiof Nevanlinna ( Fin. Frithiof Nevanlinna ) were also mathematicians. Rolf was twice married. The first marriage was made with cousin mathematician Marie Selin ( Fin. Mary Selin ) in 1919. In their marriage, four children were born: Kai, Harry (head of the Finnish Red Cross in 1948-1988), Aarne (a famous writer in Finland) and Sulvi. The couple divorced in 1958, and in the same year, Nevanlinna married the writer Sinikka Kallio-Visapään . In this marriage, Rolf had a daughter, Christina.
In politics, Rolf Nevanlinna adhered to extreme right-wing views, was a member of the Patriotic Popular Movement .
Career
Rolf Herman studied at the Alexander University of Helsinki (1913-1917), and in 1919 he defended his doctorate. In 1922 he became an assistant professor at the University of Helsinki , and in 1926 he was promoted to the rank of professor. In 1947, he moved to the University of Zurich , but returned for a while to Finland, when in 1948 he became one of the 12 members of the newly created Academy of Finland. From 1948 to 1963, Nevanlinna lived in two countries. He retired in 1963, after which he worked as chancellor at the University of Turku until 1970.
Scientific Contribution
Studying the distribution of the values of meromorphic functions and creating the is considered the main work of Rolf Nevanlinna.
Recognition and memory
- Professor Emeritus of Heidelberg , Bucharest , Giessen , Uppsala , Istanbul University , Jyväskylä University, Glasgow University and Free University of Berlin .
- Honorary member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences , the Finnish Union of Mathematicians, the London Mathematical Society , the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , the Finnish Association of Teachers of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry ( Fin. MAOL ) and the Swiss Mathematical Society.
- President of the International Mathematical Union from 1959 to 1963.
- Nevanlinna Prize - A prize in the field of computer science or computational mathematics, named after Rolf Nevanlinna.
Proceedings
- Nevanlinna R. Space, time and relativity. - M .: Mir, 1966 .-- 229 p.
- Nevanlinna R. Single-valued analytic functions. - M.-L.: Gostekhizdat, 1941.
- Nevanlinna R. Uniformization. - M .: IL, 1955.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Archive for the history of mathematics MacTyutor
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
Links
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson . Nevanlinna, Rolf (English) - biography in the MacTutor archive.