Robert Rumely

Robert Scott Rumely (born 1952) is a professor of mathematics at the University of Georgia who specializes in number theory and arithmetic geometry.^[1] He is one of the inventors of the Adleman–Pomerance–Rumely primality test.^[2]

Life

Rumely was born on June 23, 1952, in Pullman, Washington. He graduated from Grinnell College in 1974,^[3] and completed his Ph.D. in 1978 at Princeton University under the supervision of Goro Shimura.^[4] After temporary positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, he joined the University of Georgia faculty in 1981.^[3]

Rumely has taught a summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates program on the mathematics of paper folding.^[5]

Books

He is the author or co-author of four books:

• Capacity Theory on Algebraic Curves (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1378, 1989)^[6][7]
• Existence of the Sectional Capacity (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society 145, 2000)^[8]
• Potential Theory and Dynamics on the Berkovich Projective Line (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 159, 2010)^[9]
• Capacity Theory with Local Rationality: The Strong Fekete-Szegö Theorem on Curves (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs 193, 2013)^[10]

Awards

In 2015 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to arithmetic potential theory, computational number theory, and arithmetic dynamics".^[11]