De Branges's theorem
Teorema de De Branges
- Date
- 1985 · confidence low
- Place
- West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
- Credited to
- Louis de Branges de Bourcia
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Louis de Branges's proof of the Bieberbach conjecture (1916), establishing a necessary condition for a holomorphic function to map the open unit disk injectively into the complex plane.
What it led to
- Closure of a problem left open for almost 70 years
- Development of de Branges space techniques
- Confirmation through review by several international groups of mathematicians