Robert Finn (mathematician)
Robert Finn | |
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| Born | August 8, 1922 Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| Died | August 16, 2022 (aged 100) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (BS) Syracuse University (PhD) |
| Thesis | On some properties of the solution of a class of non-linear partial differential equations |
| Doctoral advisor | Abe Gelbart |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Sub-discipline | Minimal surfaces Quasiconformal mapping |
| Institutions | University of Southern California California Institute of Technology Stanford University |
| Doctoral students | Joel Spruck Luen-Fai Tam |
Robert Samuel Finn (August 8, 1922 – August 16, 2022) was an American mathematician who worked in differential geometry, complex analysis and mathematical physics.