Robert Bryant (mathematician)

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Robert Bryant
Robert Bryant, working with R. Kusner, found this parameterization of Boy's surface which minimizes the Willmore energy

Robert Bryant is an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry. As of 2007, he has served as the chairman of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI).[1] 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.[2] He is also a senior research scientist at Duke University.[3]

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Biography: Robert Bryant". MSRI. 2008. 
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ↑ http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/faculty/bryant
  4. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.


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