Robert Everist Greene (born 1943) is an American mathematician, who contributed to differential geometry and several complex variables. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Greene was an undergraduate at Michigan State University and a Putnam Fellow in 1963.^[1] He went to princeton briefly, then completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. His doctoral advisor was Hung-Hsi Wu; his doctoral thesis was titled Isometric Embeddings of Riemannian and Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds.^[2]

Greene is also an amateur violinist, and was the violin instructor of Russell Crowe^[3] in the 2003 epic period war-drama film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. In Princeton years, he played violin with Hassler Whitney, one of the founders of the subject differential topology, who was a violin and viola player. ^[4]

Some of Greene's books and papers are:^[5][6]

Greene, Robert (1970). Isometric embeddings of Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. AMS. ISBN 978-0-8218-1297-6.

• Function theory of One Complex Variable (Graduate Studies in Mathematics 40)
• Differential Geometry
• The Automorphism Groups Of Domains
• Function Theory On Manifolds Which Possess A Pole
• Introduction to Topology (with Theodore Gamelin)
• Several Complex Variables and Complex Geometry

• Official website