Lipman Bers

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. 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.