When Bers met Lavrentev three years later he asked him the same questions and, indeed, Ahlfors had been correct in guessing why Lavrentev had credited him. Bers continued in his 1986 lecture:
Kapag Bers matugunan Lavrentev tatlong taon mamaya siya nagtanong sa kanya ang parehong mga katanungan at, sa katunayan, Ahlfors had been tama sa hulaan kung bakit Lavrentev had-credit sa kanya. Bers patuloy sa kanyang 1986 panayam: