About David P. Robbins
Lived 1942 – 2003 (aged 61). David P. Robbins was an American mathematician.
David Peter Robbins (12 August 1942 in Brooklyn – 4 September 2003 in Princeton) was an American mathematician. He is most famous for introducing alternating sign matrices. He is also known for his work on generalizations of Heron's formula on the area of polygons, due to which Robbins pentagons (cyclic pentagons with integer side lengths and areas) were named after him.
Robbins grew up in Manhattan, where he attended the Fieldston School. He then taught at MIT, Phillips Exeter Academy, Hamilton College and Washington and Lee University.
The American Mathematical Society has another prize, the David P. Robbins Prize (AMS) with the same name the first winners of which were Samuel P. Ferguson and Thomas C. Hales for their work on the Kepler conjecture.
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American mathematician
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David P. Robbins was born on 12 August 1942 in Brooklyn.
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David P. Robbins died on 4 September 2003.
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David P. Robbins was a mathematician.
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