Author Description

One of the founders of a major modern branch of complex analysis, Lipman Bers made fundamental contributions to the modern theory of Kleinian groups and moduli of Riemann surfaces. These volumes contain a collection of Bers' papers in complex analysis. Included are seminal papers in the field and articles by the editors and other colleagues discussing Bers' achievements and influence on the mathematical developments of the second half of the 20th century. List of his students, his publications, and reprints of hard-to-find papers are included.