Edgar H. Brown
| Edgar H. Brown, Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 27, 1927 Oak Park, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Brandeis University |
| Doctoral advisor | George W. Whitehead |
| Doctoral students |
Ralph Cohen Douglas Ravenel Terence Gaffney |
Edgar Henry Brown, Jr. (born: 27 December 1926) is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic topology, and for many years a professor at Brandeis University.
Life
Brown was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He completed his bachelor's degree in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin in 1949. He completed his master's degree in mathematics at Washington State University in 1951.
Career
He completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954. His doctoral supervisor was George W. Whitehead, and his doctoral dissertation was on Finite Computability of the Homotopy Groups of Finite Groups.[1]
Brown has received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.
Contributions to mathematics
He has made numerous contributions to mathematics including:
His publications include:
- Brown, Edgar H., Jr. (1959). "Twisted tensor products. I.". Annals of Mathematics. 69 (1): 223–246. doi:10.2307/1970101. MR 0105687.
- Brown, Edgar H., Jr. (1962). "Cohomology theories". Annals of Mathematics. 75 (3): 467–484. doi:10.2307/1970209. MR 0138104.
- Brown, Edgar H., Jr.; Peterson, Franklin P. (1966). "A spectrum whose cohomology is the algebra of reduced powers". Topology. 5 (2): 149–154. doi:10.1016/0040-9383(66)90015-2. MR 0192494.
- Brown, Edgar H., Jr.; Gitler, Samuel (1973). "A spectrum whose cohomology is a certain cyclic module over the Steenrod algebra". Topology. 12: 283–295. doi:10.1016/0040-9383(73)90014-1. MR 0391071.
- Brown, Edgar H. (1965). "Abstract homotopy theory". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 119 (1): 79–85. doi:10.2307/1994231.
