Robert W. Brooks
Robert Wolfe Brooks was a mathematician known for his work in spectral geometry, Riemann surfaces, circle packings, and differential geometry.
He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1977; his thesis, The smooth cohomology of groups of diffeomorphisms, was written under the supervision of Raoul Bott. He worked at the University of Maryland, then at the University of Southern California, and then, from 1995, at the Technion in Haifa.Work
In an influential paper, Brooks proved that the bounded cohomology of a topological space is isomorphic to the bounded cohomology of its fundamental group.Honors
