Robert Connelly (born July 15, 1942) is a mathematician specializing indiscrete geometry andrigidity theory. Connelly received his Ph.D. fromUniversity of Michigan in 1969. He is currently a professor atCornell University.^[1][2]

Connelly is best known for discovering embeddedflexible polyhedra. One such polyhedron is in theNational Museum of American History. His recent interests includetensegrities and thecarpenter's rule problem. In 2012 he became a fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society.^[3]

Asteroid4816 Connelly, discovered byEdward Bowell atLowell Observatory 1981, was named after Robert Connelly.^[1] The officialnaming citation was published by theMinor Planet Center on 18 February 1992 (M.P.C. 19698).^[4]

Connelly has authored or co-authored several articles on mathematics, includingConjectures and open questions in rigidity;A flexible sphere; andA counterexample to the rigidity conjecture for polyhedra.^[5]

• Personal home page
• Robert Connelly at theMathematics Genealogy Project
• Cornell Mathematics Department web page (with a picture)
• Why Things Don't Fall Down – A Lecture About Tensegrity by Robert Connelly
• Mathematical Treasures of the Smithsonian Institution – Allyn Jackson,AMS Notices, vol. 46, no. 5 (May 1999), 528–534.

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