Robert W. Brooks

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Robert W. Brooks (1985)
Robert W. Brooks (1985)

Robert Wolfe Brooks (Washington, D.C., September 16, 1952 – Montreal, September 5, 2002) was a

Riemann surfaces, circle packings, and differential geometry
.

He received his

Work

In an influential paper (

isomorphic to the bounded cohomology of its fundamental group.[2]

Honors

Selected publications

  • Brooks, Robert (1981). "Some remarks on bounded cohomology". Riemann surfaces and related topics: Proceedings of the 1978 Stony Brook Conference (State Univ. New York, Stony Brook, N.Y., 1978). Ann. of Math. Stud. Vol. 97. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 53–63. .
  • Brooks, Robert (1981). "A relation between growth and the spectrum of the Laplacian". .
  • Brooks, Robert (1981). "The fundamental group and the spectrum of the Laplacian". .
  • Brooks, Robert (1988). "Constructing isospectral manifolds". .
Reviewer Maung Min-Oo for MathSciNet wrote: "This is a well written survey article on the construction of isospectral manifolds which are not isometric with emphasis on hyperbolic Riemann surfaces of constant negative curvature."[3]
  • Brooks, Robert, "Form in Topology", The Magicians of Form, ed. by Robert M. Weiss. Laurelhurst Publications, 2003.

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