Robert Everist Greene
Birth date1943 (age 83–84)
FieldsMathematics
Work institutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Alma materMichigan State University, University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorHung-Hsi Wu
SpousePaige Greene

Robert Everist Greene (born 1943) is an American mathematician who contributed to differential geometry and several complex variables. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Greene was an undergraduate at Michigan State University and a Putnam Fellow in 1963.[1] He went to Princeton briefly, then completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. His doctoral advisor was Hung-Hsi Wu; his doctoral thesis was titled Isometric Embeddings of Riemannian and Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds.[2]

Personal life

Greene is also an amateur violinist, and was the violin instructor of Russell Crowe for the 2003 epic period war-drama film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.[3] In his Princeton years, he played violin with Hassler Whitney, one of the founders of the subject differential topology, who was a violin and viola player. [4]

Bibliography

Some of Greene's books and papers are:[5][6]

Greene, Robert (1970). Isometric embeddings of Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. AMS. ISBN 978-0-8218-1297-6.

  • Function theory of One Complex Variable (Graduate Studies in Mathematics 40)
  • Differential Geometry
  • 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

References

  1. ^ "List of Previous Putnam Winners". Mathematical Association of America. Archived from the original on 2023-10-10. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
  2. ^ "Robert Greene – The Mathematics Genealogy Project". nodak.edu
  3. ^ "Robert E. Greene's Page". Retrieved September 23, 2025.
  4. ^ "Chern, Shing-Shen. "Hassler Whitney (23 March 1907-10 May 1989)." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 138, no. 3 (1994): 465–67.". JSTOR 986754
  5. ^ "Robert Everist Greene". goodreads.com
  6. ^ "Greene, Robert Everist (1943–) – People and organisations". nla.gov.au