Robert Everist Greene | |
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![]() Greene teaching undergraduate complex analysis in 2023 | |
Born | 1943 (age 81–82) |
Alma mater | Michigan State University, University of California, Berkeley |
Spouse | Paige Greene |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
Doctoral advisor | Hung-Hsi Wu |
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]
Greene is also an amateur violinist, and was the violin instructor of Russell Crowe [3] 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, one of the founders of the subject differential topology, who was a violin and viola player. [4]
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.
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