Lipman Bers

Lipman Bers
Born	May 22, 1914(1914-05-22) Riga, Latvia
Died	October 29, 1993(1993-10-29) (aged 79) New Rochelle, New York
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	New York University Columbia University Brown University Syracuse University
Alma mater	Charles University in Prague
Doctoral advisor	Charles Loewner
Doctoral students	Enrico Arbarello Alexander Nagel Seymour Parter Murray H. Protter Lesley Sibner

Lipman Bers (May 22, 1914 – October 29, 1993) was an American mathematician born in Riga who created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups.

Biography

Bers received his Ph.D. in 1938 from the University of Prague. His advisor was Charles Loewner. He worked at Syracuse University (1945–1951), New York University (1951–1964) and at Columbia University (1964–1982). In 1961, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He was a Vice-President (1963–65) and a President (1975–77) of the American Mathematical Society. He received the AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Exposition in 1975.

Publications

• Bers, Lipman (1953), Theory of pseudo-analytic functions, Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics, New York University, New York, MR0057347, http://books.google.com/books?id=79dWAAAAMAAJ 
• Bers, Lipman (1998), Kra, Irwin; Maskit, Bernard, eds., Selected works of Lipman Bers. Part 1, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-0996-9, MR1643465, http://www.ams.org/bookstore-getitem/item=CWORKS-9-1 
• Bers, Lipman (1998), Kra, Irwin; Maskit, Bernard, eds., Selected works of Lipman Bers. Part 2, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-0997-6, MR1643469, http://www.ams.org/bookstore-getitem/item=CWORKS-9-2 

See also

• Bers area inequality
• Bers density conjecture
• Bers slice

References

• "Remembering Lipman Bers", by Cathleen Morawetz, William Abikoff, Carol Corillon, Irwin Kra, Tilla Weinstein, and Jane Gilman, Notices of the AMS, 42:1 (1995), 8-25.
• "Lipman Bers", by Hyman Bass and Irwin Kra, National Academy of Sciences.

External links

• AMS Memorial website
• Lipman Bers at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Lipman Bers", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bers.html .