Robert Bryant

Duke University's Robert Bryant, the J.M. Kreps Professor of mathematics, whose work reaches into the higher dimensions of geometry, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.A Duke faculty member since 1987, Bryant was elected May 1 to join the elite society of approximately 2,000 scholars whose advice has been sought by U.S. leaders since its founding in 1863.In efforts that began in the 1980s, Bryant was able to show that certain difficult-to-construct geometrical configurations likely exist in the 7th and 8th dimensions.