Biography:Morton Brown
Morton Brown (born August 12, 1931, in New York City , New York) is an American mathematician, who specializes in geometric topology.
In 1958 Brown earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under R. H. Bing. From 1960 to 1962 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. Afterwards he became a professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
With Barry Mazur in 1965 he won the Oswald Veblen prize[1] for their independent and nearly simultaneous proofs of the generalized Schoenflies hypothesis[2] in geometric topology. Brown's short proof was elementary and fully general. Mazur's proof was also elementary, but it used a special assumption which was removed via later work of Morse.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
References
- ↑ "Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry". https://www.ams.org/profession/prizes-awards/ams-prizes/veblen-prize.
- ↑ Brown, Morton (1960). "A proof of the generalized Schoenflies theorem". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 66 (2): 74–76. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1960-10400-4. MR0117695
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
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