Robert Scott Rumely (born 1952) is a professor of mathematics at the University of Georgia who specializes in number theory and arithmetic geometry.
[2] Rumely was born on June 23, 1952, in Pullman, Washington.
He graduated from Grinnell College in 1974,[3] and completed his Ph.D. in 1978 at Princeton University under the supervision of Goro Shimura.
[3] Rumely has taught a summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates program on the mathematics of paper folding.
[5] He is the author or co-author of four books: In 2015 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to arithmetic potential theory, computational number theory, and arithmetic dynamics".