Burton Rodin is an American mathematician known for his research in conformal mappings and Riemann surfaces.
His thesis, titled Reproducing Formulas on Riemann Surfaces, was written under the supervision of Leo Sario.
[2] Rodin's 1968 work on extremal length of Riemann surfaces, together with an observation of Mikhail Katz, yielded the first systolic geometry inequality for surfaces independent of their genus.
[3][4] In 1980, Rodin and Stefan E. Warschawski solved the Visser–Ostrowski problem for derivatives of conformal mappings at the boundary.
[5] In 1987 he proved the Thurston conjecture for circle packings, jointly with Dennis Sullivan.