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Science & Medicine

Lipman Bers

Who

Lipman Bers · Science & Medicine

What

Complex analysis and Teichmuller theory

When

1914, Riga, Latvia (Russian Empire) — 1993, New Rochelle, New York, United States

Where

Latvia · United States

Biography

Lipman Bers is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Complex analysis and Teichmuller theory

How & why

Lipman Bers was a Latvian-born American mathematician who made deep contributions to complex analysis, partial differential equations and, most famously, Teichmüller theory and the theory of Kleinian groups. Fleeing antisemitism and the rise of Nazism, he emigrated to the United States and became a leader in his field and an advocate for human rights. He was Jewish.

Sources & external links

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

Contributions & Sources

Complex analysis and Teichmuller theory

1914

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics