Robert Everist Greene (born 1943) is an American

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

, who contributed to

differential geometry Differential geometry is a Mathematics, mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of Calculus, single variable calculus, vector calculus, lin ...

and

several complex variables The theory of functions of several complex variables is the branch of mathematics dealing with functions defined on the complex coordinate space \mathbb C^n, that is, -tuples of complex numbers. The name of the field dealing with the properties ...

. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

. Greene was an undergraduate at

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State or MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State o ...

and a

Putnam Fellow The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, often abbreviated to Putnam Competition, is an annual mathematics competition for undergraduate college students enrolled at institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada (regar ...

in 1963. He went to princeton briefly, then completed his Ph.D. at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

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

Personal life

Greene is also an amateur

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, and was the violin instructor of

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in the 2003 epic period war-drama film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. In Princeton years, he played violin with

Hassler Whitney Hassler Whitney (March 23, 1907 – May 10, 1989) was an American mathematician. He was one of the founders of singularity theory, and did foundational work in manifolds, embeddings, immersion (mathematics), immersions, characteristic classes and, ...

, one of the founders of the subject

differential topology In mathematics, differential topology is the field dealing with the topological properties and smooth properties of smooth manifolds. In this sense differential topology is distinct from the closely related field of differential geometry, which ...

, who was a violin and viola player.

Bibliography

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

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40) * ''

Differential Geometry Differential geometry is a Mathematics, mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of Calculus, single variable calculus, vector calculus, lin ...

'' * ''The Automorphism Groups Of Domains'' * ''Function Theory On Manifolds Which Possess A Pole'' * ''Introduction to Topology'' (with Theodore Gamelin) * ''Several Complex Variables and Complex Geometry''

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* 1943 births Living people 20th-century American mathematicians University of California, Berkeley alumni 21st-century American mathematicians Putnam Fellows {{US-mathematician-stub