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Meromorphic Functions: Progress and Problems

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Zürich is a special place to workers in meromorphic function theory. Rolf Nevanlinna was Professor both at the ETH and University of Zürich. His address at the 1932 Zürich ICM centered on connections between his new theory of meromorphic functions and the Riemann surface off-1, a perspective that continues to yield insights. Lars Ahlfors accompanied Nevanlinna to the ETH in 1928, where he developed his fundamental distortion theorem and proved Denjoy’s conjecture that an entire function of order ρ has at most 2ρ distinct finite asymptotic values. Zürich has been one of the main venues of the Nevanlinna Colloquia through the years, and the home of Pólya and Pfluger.

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Drasin, D. (1995). Meromorphic Functions: Progress and Problems. In: Chatterji, S.D. (eds) Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9078-6_76

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