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A working mathematician is always a Platonist. It doesn't matter what he says. He may not be a Platonist at other times. But I think that in mathematics he always has that feeling of discovery.

Lipman Bers

I alternate between two attitudes [about attempts to communicate the beauty of mathematics to a wide audience]. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I believe it can be done if we do it properly; Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays I believe it cannot.

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Mathematics develops, somehow, by its own inner laws.

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Usually people do their best work when they are young. And this is probably true of very good mathematicians. But in my case - and I think that most people who know my work will agree - what I did after forty was more interesting and more important than what I did before forty.

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Mathematics is very much like poetry... what makes a good poem — a great poem — is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words. In this insense formulas like e + 1 = 0...are poems.

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I disagree with Adler, who wrote (in the New Yorker) that there is no point in being a mathematician unless you can be a great mathematician. That's nonsense. Mathematics is like a Gothic cathedral. If you can build a little part of it, it is there - forever - in some sense. At least I have the illusion that it is so.

Lipman Bers

Lipman Bers

Lipman Bers

Born: May 22, 1914

Died: October 29, 1993 (aged 79)

Bio: Lipman "Lipa" Bers was an American mathematician born in Riga who created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. He was also known for his work in human rights activism.

Known for:

Advances in the Theory of Riemann Surfaces. (AM-66) (1971)

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