Robert Everist Greene (born 1943) is an

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at UCLA. Greene was an undergraduate at

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and a

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in 1963. He completed his Ph.D. at the

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in 1969. His doctoral advisor was Hung-Hsi Wu; his doctoral thesis was titled ''Isometric Embeddings of Riemannian and Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds''.

Bibliography

Some of Greene's books and papers are: * ''Function theory of One Complex Variable'' (

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40) * ''

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'' * ''The Automorphism Groups Of Domains'' * ''Function Theory On Manifolds Which Possess A Pole'' * ''Introduction to Topology'' (with

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) * ''Several Complex Variables and Complex Geometry''

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