Robert W. Brooks
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
- Alfred P. Sloan fellowship
- Guastella fellowship
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. MR 0624804.
- Brooks, Robert (1981). "A relation between growth and the spectrum of the Laplacian". S2CID 122114581.
- Brooks, Robert (1981). "The fundamental group and the spectrum of the Laplacian". S2CID 121175762.
- Brooks, Robert (1988). "Constructing isospectral manifolds". MR 0967343.
- 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.