"Bers' paper [15], in which he shows that a C-linear algebra isomorphism between the rings of holomorphic functions on two surfaces is induced by a conformal map between them, appeared in 1948 and started a whole industry. ..."
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Lipman Bers
Lipman Bers (May 22, 1914 – October 29, 1993) was a Latvian-born American mathematician, known for his research on pseudoanalytic functions, Riemann surfaces, and Kleinian groups. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1958 in Edinburgh. He was the president of the American Mathematical Society from 1975 to 1976.
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