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Robert Brown Gardner

American mathematician
Person Human Q14005687

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15 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[12]
Date of birth
February 27, 1939
Date of death
May 5, 1998
Place of birth
Tarrytown
Country of citizenship
United States[5]
Occupation
mathematician
Employer
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Columbia University[6][7]
Educated at
Columbia University, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley[8][9][10]
Doctoral advisor
Shiing-Shen Chern[11]
Doctoral student
Robert Bryant, Donald Singley, Gregory T. Jackson, Robert P. Buemi, Dean Payne, Gerard Thompson, George Rudolph Wilkens, Charles Grissom, David Thompson, Michael Sutton, Boyd Coan, Steve Horvath, Christine Scharlach[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
Different from
Robert Bentley Gardner[29]
Family name
Gardner[26]
Given name
Robert, Brown[27][28]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics[30]
🏷️ Also known as
en Robert Brown Gardner en Robert Gardner ar روبرت براون غاردنر he רוברט בראון גרדנר
🔖 Identifiers · 18
ISNI
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VIAF cluster ID
36425053
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n88291908
GND ID
1089272758
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Robert Gardner (mathematician), 1978 (headshot).jpg ↗
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12378578n
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/12hhj4qdl
IdRef ID
085855871
J9U entity ID
987007424030105171
MR Author ID
71420
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
22424
NUKAT ID
n01195422
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Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
078332141
Prabook ID
643891
UOM ID
29287
WorldCat Entities ID
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Yale LUX ID
person/d35ad1b9-7db9-4098-ae9f-2ce883b9c27c
ZbMATH author ID
gardner.robert-b

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Educated at 3
Princeton University, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley
Employer 2
Columbia University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Country of citizenship 1
United States
Doctoral advisor 1
Shiing-Shen Chern
Doctoral advisors 1
Shiing-Shen Chern
Doctoral student 1
Robert Bryant
Doctoral students 1
Robert Bryant
Family name 1
Gardner
Given name 1
Robert
Instance of 1
human
Maintained by WikiProject 1
WikiProject Mathematics
Occupation 1
mathematician
Place of birth 1
Tarrytown
Sex or gender 1
male
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Summary

Robert Brown Gardner was born on February 27, 1939[1], in Tarrytown[2]. He died on May 5, 1998[3]. He worked as a mathematician[4].

Why It Matters

His notable doctoral advisees include Robert Bryant[31], a differential geometrician[32], b. 1953[33], of United States[34], awarded the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[35], specialised in differential geometry[36].

FAQs

Where was Robert Brown Gardner born?

Robert Brown Gardner was born in Tarrytown[2].

What did Robert Brown Gardner do for work?

Robert Brown Gardner worked as a mathematician[4].

Where did Robert Brown Gardner go to school?

Robert Brown Gardner was educated at Columbia University[8], Princeton University[9], and University of California, Berkeley[10].

Related Entities

Shiing-Shen Chern United States

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  7. [4] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
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  28. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

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