Lipman Bers (May 22, 1914, Riga, Latvia – October 29, 1993, New Rochelle, New York) was an American mathematician who worked on Riemann surfaces.

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). He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 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.

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 .