1. Robert "Bob" Osserman was an American mathematician who worked in geometry.
12 Facts About Robert Osserman
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Robert Osserman is specially remembered for his work on the theory of minimal surfaces.
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Robert Osserman joined the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in 1990.
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Robert Osserman worked on geometric function theory, differential geometry, the two integrated in a theory of minimal surfaces, isoperimetric inequality, and other issues in the areas of astronomy, geometry, cartography and complex function theory.
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Robert Osserman edited numerous books and promoted mathematics, such as in interviews with celebrities Steve Martin and Alan Alda.
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Robert Osserman was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians of 1978 in Helsinki.
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Robert Osserman received the Lester R Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America for his popular science writings.
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Robert Osserman died on Wednesday, November 30,2011 at his home.
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Robert Osserman showed that fast growth and monotonicity of is incompatible with the existence of global solutions.
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Robert Osserman's method was to construct special solutions of the PDE which would facilitate application of the maximum principle.
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Robert Osserman's motivation was from differential geometry, with the observation that the scalar curvature of the Riemannian metric on the plane is given by.
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In collaboration with his former student H Blaine Lawson, Osserman studied the minimal surface problem in the case that the codimension is larger than one.