Robert Bryant (mathematician)

Robert Bryant

Bryant at Oberwolfach in 2012
Born Robert Leamon Bryant
(1953-08-30) August 30, 1953
Kipling, North Carolina, U.S.
Nationality American
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Duke University
University of California at Berkeley
Rice University
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Alma mater North Carolina State University at Raleigh
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thesis Some Aspects of the Local and Global Theory of Pfaffian Systems (1979)
Doctoral advisor Robert Brown Gardner
Website
fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/bryant
Robert Bryant, working with R. Kusner, found this parameterization of Boy's surface which minimizes the Willmore energy

Robert Leamon Bryant (born August 30, 1953) is an American mathematician and Phillip Griffiths Professor of Mathematics at Duke University.[1] He specializes in differential geometry. As of 2007, he has served as the chairman of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI).[2] He is known for his work in exterior differential systems, special holonomy, and Finsler geometry. Bryant surfaces, surfaces of unit constant mean curvature in hyperbolic space, are named after him.[3] The Bryant soliton is also named after him.[1]

In 2013 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4] He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. On February 1, 2015, he began his two-year term as president of the American Mathematical Society.[5][6]

Selected publications

Bryant and David Morrison are the editors of vol. 4 of the Selected Works of Phillip Griffiths.

References

  1. 1 2 http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/faculty/bryant
  2. "Biography: Robert Bryant". MSRI. 2008.
  3. Rosenberg, Harold (2002), "Bryant surfaces", The global theory of minimal surfaces in flat spaces (Martina Franca, 1999), Lecture Notes in Math. 1775, Berlin: Springer, pp. 67–111, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-45609-4_3, MR 1901614.
  4. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
  5. "Bryant Begins Term as AMS President". American Mathematical Society, Homepage. February 3, 2015.
  6. Robert L. Bryant, AMS Presidents: A Timeline
  7. Olver, Peter J. (2005). "Review: Exterior differential systems and Euler-Lagrange partial differential equations, by R. L. Bryant, P. A Griffiths, and D. A. Grossman" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 42 (3): 407–412. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-05-01062-1.

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