Richard Bruce Paris (23 January 1946 – 8 July 2022[1]) was a British mathematician and reader at the Abertay University in Dundee, who specialized in calculus.

He spent his early childhood in the Yorkshire area until his family moved to the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, in the mid-1950s, due to the work of his father.

There, Paris visited the Calday Grange Grammar School in West Kirby to eventually discover his interest in mathematics.

[3] After Paris finished his doctoral thesis, he moved to France to work for Euratom at the Department of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion in Fontenay-aux-Roses.

In 1987, Paris quit his job at Euratom and moved to Scotland to work as a senior lecturer at the Abertay University in Dundee.

[4] The work of Paris deals with the asymptotic behaviour of a wide scope of special functions, in many case with a connection to physical problems.

In collaboration with David Kaminski, associate professor of mathematics at the University of Lethbridge, Paris published the monograph Asymptotics and Mellin-Barnes integrals.