Roger David Nussbaum (born 29 January 1944 in Philadelphia) is an American mathematician, specializing in nonlinear functional analysis and differential equations.
Nussbaum graduated in 1965 with a bachelor's degree from Harvard University.
He received his Ph.D.
in 1969 from the University of Chicago with thesis The Fixed Point Index and Fixed Point Theorems for K-Set Contractions supervised by Felix Browder.
At Rutgers University Nussbaum became in 1969 an assistant professor, in 1973 an associate professor, and in 1977 a full professor.
He retired there as professor emeritus.
He was elected in 2012 a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.