Edgar H. Brown
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Edgar H. Brown, Jr. | |
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| Born | 27 December 1926 |
| Died | 22 December 2021 (aged 94) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Brown's representability theorem Brown–Peterson cohomology Brown–Gitler spectrum |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Brandeis University |
| Thesis | Finite Computability of the Homotopy Groups of Finite Groups (1954) |
| Doctoral advisor | George W. Whitehead |
| Doctoral students | Ralph Cohen Douglas Ravenel Terence Gaffney |
| Website | people |
Edgar Henry Brown, Jr. (December 27, 1926 – December 22, 2021)[1] was an American mathematician specializing in algebraic topology, and for many years a professor at Brandeis University.[2]
Life[edit]
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[edit]
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.[3]
In 1962–63 he visited the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey,[4] and in 1964 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship.[5] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974[6] and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.
Contributions to mathematics[edit]
He 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. JSTOR 1970101. MR 0105687.
- Brown, Edgar H. Jr. (1962). "Cohomology theories". Annals of Mathematics. 75 (3): 467–484. doi:10.2307/1970209. JSTOR 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 (3): 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. JSTOR 1994231.
References[edit]
- ^ "Edgar H. Brown. Jr". Brandeis University. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
- ^ "BROWN, Edgar H. Jr". Boston Globe. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ Edgar H. Brown at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Past member: Edgar H. Brown". Institute for Advanced Study. 9 December 2019. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
- ^ "Edgar H, Brown, Guggenheim Fellow".
- ^ "List of Members by Classes September 1, 1997". Records of the Academy (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) (1996/1997): 56–128. 1996. JSTOR 3786119.
