Robert Geroch
Robert Geroch | |
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Born | 1 June 1942 |
Nationality | American |
Known for | Geroch energy Geroch's splitting theorem Geroch group |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Chicago |
Doctoral advisor | John Archibald Wheeler |
Doctoral students | Abhay Ashtekar Gary Horowitz Basilis C. Xanthopoulos |
Robert Geroch (born 1 June 1942 in Akron, Ohio)[1] is an American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Chicago. He has worked prominently on general relativity and mathematical physics and has promoted the use of category theory in mathematics and physics. He was the Ph.D. supervisor for Abhay Ashtekar, Basilis Xanthopoulos and Gary Horowitz. He also proved an important theorem in spin geometry.[2][3]
Education[]
Geroch obtained his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University in 1967 under the supervision of John Archibald Wheeler, with a thesis on Singularities in the spacetime of general relativity: their definition, existence, and local characterization.[4]
Writings[]
Articles[]
- Geroch, Robert (1968), "Spinor Structure of Space-Times in General Relativity. I", Journal of Mathematical Physics, 9 (11): 1739–1743, Bibcode:1968JMP.....9.1739G, doi:10.1063/1.1664507
Books[]
- R. Geroch (1981). General Relativity from A to B. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-28863-3.
- R. Geroch (1985). Mathematical Physics (Lectures in Physics). University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-28862-5.
- R. Geroch (2009). Perspectives in computation. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-28855-0.
- R. Geroch (2013). Geometrical Quantum Mechanics: 1974 Lecture Notes (Lecture Notes Series) (Volume 3). Minkowski Institute Press; 1 edition. ISBN 978-1927763049.
Unpublished notes[]
- Special topics in Particle Physics, Lecture course at University of Chicago, 1973–74.
- Suggestions For Giving Talks, Notes on giving scientific talks, 1973. Available at: arXiv:gr-qc/9703019
See also[]
Notes[]
- ^ American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale, 2004
- ^ Geroch, Robert (1968), "Spinor Structure of Space-Times in General Relativity. I", Journal of Mathematical Physics, 9 (11): 1739–1743, Bibcode:1968JMP.....9.1739G, doi:10.1063/1.1664507
- ^ Parker, Phillip E. (1984), "On some theorems of Geroch and Stiefel", Journal of Mathematical Physics, 25 (3): 597–599, doi:10.1063/1.1665067
- ^ Robert Geroch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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