Nationality American | Role Mathematician Name Robert Bryant | |
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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) Books Game Testing All in One, Exterior Differential Systems, The Thin Black Line: Perspecti, Exterior Differential Systems, Inspiration And Revelatio | ||
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
Bryant and David Morrison are the editors of vol. 4 of the Selected Works of Phillip Griffiths.