Robert Gunning (mathematician)
Robert Clifford Gunning ( born November 27, 1931 in Longmont, Colorado) is an American mathematician who deals with complex analysis.
Life and work
Robert Gunning studied at the University of Colorado (Bachelor 1952) and Princeton University, where in 1953 he took his master's degree and was awarded his doctorate in 1955 at Salomon Bochner (A classification of factors of automorphy ). After that, he was at the University of Chicago and from 1956 Higgins Lecturer at Princeton University. In 1957 he became assistant professor, associate professor in 1962 and professor in 1966. 1989 to 1995 he was Dean of the Mathematics Department. He was a visiting professor in São Paulo (1958 ), Cambridge (1959 /60), Munich ( 1967), Oxford ( 1968), Boulder ( 1970), Los Angeles ( 1972).
Gunning is known as the author of several textbooks on complex analysis.
1958 to 1961 he was a Sloan Fellow. In 2003 he received the award for outstanding teaching at Princeton University. At times, he was an editor at Princeton University Press and of the Annals of Mathematical Studies. He also published the collected essays of his teacher Salomon Bochner. In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice ( Some multivariable problems Arising from Riemann surfaces ). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
His doctoral include Richard Hamilton, Yum - Tong Siu and Sheldon Katz.
Writings (selection )
- Introduction to holomorphic functions of several variables. 3 volumes, Wadsworth and Brooks / Cole, 1990.
- Hugo Rossi Analytic functions of several complex variables. Prentice-Hall 1965.
- Riemann Surfaces and generalized theta functions. Springer, results of mathematics and its applications, 1976.
- Lectures on Vector Bundles over Riemann Surfaces. Princeton University Press 1967.
- Lectures on Riemann Surfaces. Princeton University Press 1966.