Robert Brown Gardner

Robert Brown (Robby) Gardner (Tarrytown, New York, February 27, 1939 – May 5, 1998) was an American mathematician who worked on differential geometry.

Biography Gardner graduated from Princeton University in 1959, earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1960, and completed his PhD in 1965 from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Shiing-Shen Chern.

After this, he worked at many places, including the Institute for Advanced Study, and worked as assistant professor at Columbia University between 1967 and 1970. He joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1971 and became a full professor there in 1977. eighteen masters students and thirteen Ph.D. students.

Legacy In his memory, the UNC Mathematics Department created the Robert Brown Gardner Memorial Fund, devoted to supporting graduate student activities.

Selected publications The Method of Equivalence and Its Applications R. Bryant, S.-S. Chern, R. B. Gardner, H. Goldschmidt, P. Griffiths, Exterior Differential Systems, MSRI Publications, Springer, 1990 Lectures on Exterior Algebras Over Commutative Rings Differential Geometric Methods in Partial Differential Equations