Robert W. Brooks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert W. Brooks

American-Israeli mathematician

Date of Birth: 16-Sep-1952

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Date of Death: 05-Sep-2002

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: United States, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Robert Wolfe Brooks (Washington, D.C., September 16, 1952 – Montreal, September 5, 2002) was a mathematician known for his work in spectral geometry, Riemann surfaces, circle packings, and differential geometry. He received his Ph.D.
from Harvard University in 1977; his thesis, The smooth cohomology of groups of diffeomorphisms, was written under the supervision of Raoul Bott.
He worked at the University of Maryland (1979–1984), then at the University of Southern California, and then, from 1995, at the Technion in Haifa.