Bernard Maskit

Background

Maskit, Bernard was born on May 27, 1935 in New York City.

Education

Bachelor, New York University, 1957; Master of Science, New York University, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1964.

Career

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 International Congress of Mathematicians. Maskit earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 1964 from New York University under the supervision of Lipman Bers.

After postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Advanced Study he was an assistant professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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 fellows of the American Mathematical Society.

Achievements

• Bernard Maskit has been listed as a noteworthy Mathematician, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Mathematics Society.

Connections

Son of Sidney and Celia Maskit. Divorced; children: Sidney, Jonathan, Daniel. Married Wilma Seldin Bucci, August 29, 1983.

Father:

Sidney Maskit

Mother:

Celia Maskit

Spouse:

Wilma Seldin Bucci

child:

Sidney Maskit

child:

Daniel Maskit

child:

Jonathan Maskit