Robert Bryant (mathematician)

Updated on Nov 17, 2023

Edit

Comment

Nationality American Fields Mathematics		Role Mathematician Name Robert Bryant

Born Robert Leamon Bryant August 30, 1953 (age 70) Kipling, North Carolina, U.S. ( 1953-08-30 ) Institutions Duke UniversityUniversity of California at BerkeleyRice UniversityMathematical Sciences Research Institute Alma mater North Carolina State University at RaleighUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Thesis Some Aspects of the Local and Global Theory of Pfaffian Systems (1979) Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill People also search for Phillip Griffiths, Werner Boy, Bernard Morin Books Game Testing All in One, Exterior Differential Systems, The Thin Black Line: Perspecti, Exterior Differential Systems, Inspiration And Revelatio
Doctoral advisor Robert Brown Gardner

Robert Leamon Bryant (born August 30, 1953) is an American mathematician and Phillip Griffiths Professor of Mathematics at Duke University. He specializes in differential geometry. He served as the director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) from 2007 to 2013. 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. The Bryant soliton is also named after him.

In 2013 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He served as the president of the American Mathematical Society from February 1, 2015 until January 31, 2017.

Selected publications

editor with David Bao, S. S. Chern, Zhongmin Shen: A sampler of Riemann-Finsler Geometry, Cambridge University Press 2004

with Robert Brown Gardner, S. S. Chern, H. L. Goldschmidt, Phillip Griffiths: Exterior Differential Systems, MSRI Publ. 18, Springer Verlag 1991

with Phillip Griffiths, Dan Grossmann: Exterior Differential Systems and Euler-Lagrange Partial Differential Equations, Chicago Lectures in Mathematics, University of Chicago Press 2003

editor with Victor Guillemin, Sigurdur Helgason, R. O. Wells: Integral Geometry, Contemporary Mathematics 63, AMS 1987

Metrics with exceptional holonomy, Annals of Mathematics, vol. 126, 1987, pp. 525–567

An introduction to Lie groups and symplectic geometry, in Geometry and quantum field theory, IAS/Park City Math. Series 1, American Mathematical Society 1995, pp. 5–181

with Lucas Hsu, Phillip Griffiths: Hyperbolic exterior differential systems and their conservation laws, Parts 1,2, Selecta Mathematica, 1, 1995, 21-112, 265-323

with Griffiths: Characteristic Cohomology of Differential Systems, Parts 1,2, Journal of the AMS, vol. 8, 1995, pp. 507–596, Duke Math. J., vol. 78, 1995, pp. 531–676

with Hsu, Griffiths: Toward a Geometry of Differential Equations, in: Geometry, Topology & Physics, Conf. Proc. Lecture Notes Geom. Topology, VI, International Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995, pp. 1–76

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

References

Robert Bryant (mathematician) Wikipedia

(Text) CC BY-SA