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    Born
    23 May 1914
    Riga, Russia (now Latvia)
    Died
    29 October 1993
    New Rochelle, New York, USA

    Summary
    Lipman Bers was a Latvian-born American mathematician who worked on pseudoanalytic functions, Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups.

    Biography

    Lipman Bers, always known as Lipa, was born into a Jewish family.

    His parents Isaac Bers and Bertha Weinberg were teachers, his mother being head at an elementary school in Riga where teaching was in Yiddish while his father was head at the Yiddish high school in Riga. Born in 1914, Lipa's early years were much affected by the political and military events taking place in Russia.

    Latvia had been under Russian imperial rule since the 18th century so World War I meant that there were evacuations from Riga. The Russian Revolution which began in October 1917 caused fighting between the Red Army and the White Army and for the next couple of years various parts of Russia came first under the control of one faction t