Robert Everist Greene

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.

Robert Everist Greene
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

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]

Personal life

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]

Bibliography

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.

• Function theory of One Complex Variable (Graduate Studies in Mathematics 40)
• Differential Geometry
• The Automorphism Groups Of Domains
• Function Theory On Manifolds Which Possess A Pole
• Introduction to Topology (with Theodore Gamelin)
• Several Complex Variables and Complex Geometry