High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert F. Coleman is an American mathematician, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His primary research area is in number theory, with specific interest in p-adic analysis and arithmetic geometry. In particular, he is known for the study of curves of number fields and the Diophantine properties of sets of torsion points, where he has developed techniques of p-adic integration, producing analogies of abelian integrals. He is also known for introducing p-adic Banach spaces into the study of modular forms.