Robert Wolfe Brooks | |
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| Born | (1952-09-16)September 16, 1952 Washington, D.C., United States |
| Died | September 5, 2002(2002-09-05) (aged 49) Montreal, Canada |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Known for | Spectral geometry, Riemann surfaces, circle packings, differential geometry |
| Awards | Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, Guastella Fellowship |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Maryland,University of Southern California,Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Raoul Bott |
Robert Wolfe Brooks (Washington, D.C., September 16, 1952 – Montreal, September 5, 2002) was amathematician known for his work inspectral geometry,Riemann surfaces,circle packings, anddifferential geometry.
He received hisPh.D. fromHarvard University in 1977; his thesis,The smooth cohomology of groups of diffeomorphisms, was written under the supervision ofRaoul Bott. He worked at theUniversity of Maryland (1979–1984), then at theUniversity of Southern California, and then, from 1995, at theTechnion inHaifa.[1]
In an influential paper (Brooks 1981), Brooks proved that thebounded cohomology of atopological space isisomorphic to the bounded cohomology of itsfundamental group.[2]
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