médaille Fields 1936 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Lars Ahlfors

   Mathématiques

   Awarded medal for research on covering surfaces related to Riemann surfaces of inverse functions of entire and meromorphic functions. Opened up new fields of analysis.

2. Jesse Douglas

   Mathématiques

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