Biography:Edgar H. Brown
Edgar H. Brown, Jr. | |
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| Born | Oak Park, Illinois |
| Died | 22 December 2021 (aged 94) Newton Highlands, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | United States |
| 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
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.[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
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.
- Brown, Edgar H. Jr. (1962). "Cohomology theories". Annals of Mathematics 75 (3): 467–484. doi:10.2307/1970209.
- Brown, Edgar H. Jr.; Peterson, Franklin P. (1966). "A spectrum whose [math]\displaystyle{ \mathbb{Z}_p }[/math] cohomology is the algebra of reduced [math]\displaystyle{ p^{\rm th} }[/math] powers". Topology 5 (2): 149–154. doi:10.1016/0040-9383(66)90015-2.
- 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.
- Brown, Edgar H. (1965). "Abstract homotopy theory". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 119 (1): 79–85. doi:10.2307/1994231. https://www.ams.org/journals/tran/1965-119-01/S0002-9947-1965-0182970-6/.
References
- ↑ "Edgar H. Brown. Jr.". Brandeis University. http://people.brandeis.edu/~brown/.
- ↑ "BROWN, Edgar H. Jr.". Boston Globe. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonglobe/name/edgar-brown-obituary?id=31993374.
- ↑ Edgar H. Brown at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Past member: Edgar H. Brown". Institute for Advanced Study. 9 December 2019. https://www.ias.edu/scholars/edgar-h-brown.
- ↑ "Edgar H, Brown, Guggenheim Fellow". https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/edgar-h-brown-jr/.
- ↑ "List of Members by Classes September 1, 1997". Records of the Academy (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) (1996/1997): 56–128. 1996.
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