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Lipman Bers, a Life in Mathematics
About this Title
Linda Keen, Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, Irwin Kra, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY and Rubí E. Rodríguez, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile, Editors
Publication: AMS Non-Series Monographs
Publication Year:
2015; Volume 93
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-2056-7 (print); 978-1-4704-2497-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mbk/093
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Pages from a memoir
- Lipman Bers and partial differential equations
- Bers—From graduate student to quasiconformal mapper
- Measurable Riemann mappings
- The Ahlfors-Bers creation of the modern theory of Kleinian groups—A small acorn grows to a mighty oak
- The Bers embedding and (some of) its ramifications
- Lipman Bers, a retrospective
- The Weil-Petersson geometry of a family of Riemann surfaces
- Legacy of work of Bers on the mapping class group
- Bers’ pants decomposition theorem
- Dennis Sullivan and Jeremy Kahn reminiscences
- Bers embeddings, skinning maps and hyperbolic geometry
- On the early history of moduli and Teichmüller spaces
- Reprint of Correction to “Spaces of Riemann surfaces as bounded domains”
- Reprint of The migration of European mathematicians to America
- Reprint of Lipman Bers May 22, 1914–October 29, 1993
- Reprint of Remembering Lipman Bers
- Reprint of Lipman Bers, a mathematical mentor