Robert Bryant (mathematician)

Robert L. Bryant
Bryant at MSRI in 2007
Born
Robert Leamon Bryant

(1953-08-30) August 30, 1953 (age 71)
Kipling, North Carolina, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materNorth Carolina State University at Raleigh
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Known forBryant surface
Bryant soliton
AwardsSloan Research Fellowship, 1982
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsDuke University
University of California, Berkeley
Rice University
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Thesis Some Aspects of the Local and Global Theory of Pfaffian Systems  (1979)
Doctoral advisorRobert Brown Gardner
Doctoral studentsJeanne N. Clelland
Websitefds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/bryant
Robert Bryant, working with R. Kusner, found this parameterization of Boy's surface which minimizes the Willmore energy[1]

Robert Leamon Bryant (born August 30, 1953, Kipling) is an American mathematician. He works at Duke University and specializes in differential geometry.[2]

  1. ^ Kusner, Rob (1987). "Conformal geometry and complete minimal surfaces". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 17 (2): 291–295. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1987-15564-9. ISSN 0273-0979.
  2. ^ "Robert Bryant, Phillip Griffiths Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Computer Science and Chair".