Kaarlo Virtanen
Kaarlo "Kalle" Ilmari Virtanen (born June 30, 1921 in Stockholm , † June 21, 2006 in Sipoo ) was a Finnish mathematician who dealt with function theory .
Virtanen was the son of the biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Artturi Ilmari Virtanen . After graduating from high school in 1938, he began studying mathematics at the University of Helsinki, which was interrupted by military service in World War II after the attack by the Soviet Union . In 1950 he received his doctorate in Helsinki with Pekka Myrberg (on Abel integrals on zero-bounded Riemann surfaces of infinite gender). In the same year he became an associate professor and in 1966 professor in Helsinki. He worked there with Olli Lehto in the 1950s, mainly in the field of quasi-conformal mapping, on which he published a monograph in 1965. In 1984 he retired and moved to Sipoo.
He published relatively little and worked primarily as a teacher.
Fonts
- with Olli Lehto: Quasi-conformal mappings, basic teaching of mathematical sciences 126, Springer 1965 (2nd edition Quasiconformal mappings in the plane 1973)
Web links
- Olli Lehto: Kalle Virtasen muistokirjoitus Helsingin Sanomissa (obituary, Finnish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kaarlo Virtanen in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Virtanen, Kaarlo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Virtanen, Kalle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 2006 |
| Place of death | Sipoo |