Lipman Bers

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Lipman Bers was a prominent mathematician known for his influential work in complex analysis and Teichmüller theory.

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instanceOf human
mathematician
awardReceived Chauvenet Prize
Leroy P. Steele Prize
countryOfBirth Latvia
countryOfCitizenship Latvia
United States of America
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1914-05-22
dateOfDeath 1993-10-29
doctoralAdvisor Rolf Nevanlinna
educatedAt University of Riga
University of Zurich
employer Brown University
Columbia University
New York University
Syracuse University
ethnicGroup Jewish people
linked to: Jews
familyName Bers
fieldOfWork Riemann surfaces
Teichmüller theory
complex analysis
mathematics
quasiconformal mappings
givenName Lipman
hasAcademicDiscipline geometric function theory
low-dimensional topology
influenced modern Teichmüller theory
linked to: Teichmüller theory

theory of Kleinian groups
knownFor Bers compactification
Bers embedding
work on Teichmüller spaces
work on quasiconformal mappings
languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned English
German
Russian
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
movedTo United States of America
movement emigrated from Europe to the United States
notableStudent Albert Marden
H. M. Farkas
Linda Keen
occupation university teacher
placeOfBirth Riga
placeOfDeath New Rochelle
sexOrGender male
workLocation New York City

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Lars Ahlfors notableStudent Lipman Bers
Oswald Teichmüller influenced Lipman Bers
Teichmüller space studiedBy Lipman Bers