Bernard Maskit is an American mathematician known for his expertise in

Kleinian group In mathematics, a Kleinian group is a discrete subgroup of the group (mathematics), group of orientation-preserving Isometry, isometries of hyperbolic 3-space . The latter, identifiable with PSL(2,C), , is the quotient group of the 2 by 2 complex ...

s. The Maskit slice through the moduli space of Kleinian groups is named after him; he is the author of the book ''Kleinian Groups'' (Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 287, Springer-Verlag, 1988) and gave an invited talk about Kleinian groups at the 1974

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. Maskit earned his Ph.D. in 1964 from

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under the supervision of

Lipman Bers Lipman Bers ( Latvian: ''Lipmans Berss''; May 22, 1914 – October 29, 1993) was a Latvian-American mathematician, born in Riga, who created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. He was also kn ...

. After postdoctoral studies at the

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he was an assistant professorship at the

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from 1965 to 1972. He then moved to the mathematics department at Stony Brook University, where he retired in 2008 and is now a professor emeritus. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural

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s of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2015-01-21.

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