Victor Gustave Robin (; 17 May 1855 – 1897) was a French mathematical analyst and applied mathematician who lectured in mathematical physics at the Sorbonne in Paris and also worked in the area of thermodynamics.Gustafson, Karl, and Abe, Takehisa. (Victor) Gustave Robin: 1855–1897, The Mathematical Intelligencer 20 (2) (1998), 47–53.Robert C. James, Glenn James, Mathematics Dictionary, Kluwer Academic Publishers 1995, p363Gustafson, K., (1998). Domain Decomposition, Operator Trigonometry, Robin Condition, Contemporary Mathematics, 218. 432-437. He is known especially for the Robin boundary condition. The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Prix Francœur for 1893 and again for 1897 and the Prix Poncelet for 1895.
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