Olli Lehto
Olli Erkki Lehto (born 30 May 1925 in Helsinki) is a Finnish mathematician, specializing in geometric function theory, and a former chancellor of the University of Helsinki.[1]
Lehto earned his PhD in 1949 from the University of Helsinki under Rolf Nevanlinna with thesis Anwendung orthogonaler Systeme auf gewisse funktionentheoretische Extremal- und Abbildungsprobleme.[2] At the University of Helsinki, Lehto was from 1961 to 1988 a professor, from 1978 the dean of science, from 1983 the rector, and from 1988 to 1993 the chancellor.
From 1983 to 1990 he was Secretary of the International Mathematical Union. In 1962 he became a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia).[3] In 1975 he was given by the President of Finland the honorary title "Academician of Science" (Tieteen akateemikko). Lehto was the chief organizer of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Helsinki in 1978 and an invited speaker of the ICM in Moscow in 1966 with lecture Quasiconformal mappings in the plane. He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
In 2001 Lehto published a biography of his mentor Rolf Nevanlinna.[4]
Selected works
- Univalent functions and Teichmüller Spaces. Springer, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 1987.[5]
- with Kaarlo Virtanen: Quasikonforme Abbildungen. Springer 1965, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, 2nd edition: Quasiconformal mappings in the plane. Springer 1973.
- Lehto, Olli (2001). Korkeat maailmat. Rolf Nevanlinnan elämä [High Worlds. The life of Rolf Nevanlinna] (in Finnish). Otava. 317 pages. OCLC 58345155.
- Tieteen aatelia: Lorenz Lindelöf ja Ernst Lindelöf. Otava, Helsinki 2008 (Finnish).
- Mathematics without borders: a history of the International Mathematical Union. Verlag-Springer. 1998. ISBN 978-0-387-98358-5..
- Lars Alfors --- At the Summit of Mathematics. American Mathematical Society. 2015. ISBN 978-1-4704-1846-5..
References
- ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Olli Erkki Lehto", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- ↑ Olli Lehto at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ List of members of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- ↑ Lehto, Olli (2001). Korkeat maailmat. Rolf Nevanlinnan elämä [High Worlds. The life of Rolf Nevanlinna] (in Finnish). Otava. 317 pages. OCLC 58345155.
- ↑ Earle, Clifford J. (1988). "Review: Univalent functions and Teichmüller spaces, by Olli Lehto". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 19 (2): 488–490. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15711-4.