Editing Louis de Branges de Bourcia (section)

==Works==
De Branges' [[mathematical proof|proof]] of the Bieberbach conjecture was not initially accepted by the mathematical community. Rumors of his proof began to circulate in March 1984, but many mathematicians were skeptical because de Branges had earlier announced some false (or inaccurate) results, including a claimed proof of the [[invariant subspace conjecture]] in 1964 (incidentally, in December 2008 he published a new claimed proof for this conjecture on his website). It took verification by a team of mathematicians at [[Steklov Institute of Mathematics]] in [[Leningrad]] to validate de Branges' proof, a process that took several months and led later to significant simplification of the main argument.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} The original proof uses [[hypergeometric function]]s and innovative tools from the theory of [[Hilbert space]]s of [[entire function]]s, largely developed by de Branges.

Actually, the correctness of the Bieberbach conjecture was not the only important consequence of de Branges' proof, which covers a more general problem, the [[Milin conjecture]].