Edgar H. Brown

Edgar H. Brown, Jr.
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.

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 Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974^[3] and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.

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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Brown, Edgar H., Jr. (1962). "Cohomology theories". Annals of Mathematics. 75 (3): 467–484. doi:10.2307/1970209. MR 0138104.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Brown, Edgar H., Jr.; Peterson, Franklin P. (1966). "A spectrum whose $\mathbb {Z} _{p}$ cohomology is the algebra of reduced $p^{\rm {th}}$ powers". Topology. 5 (2): 149–154. doi:10.1016/0040-9383(66)90015-2. MR 0192494.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Brown, Edgar H. (1965). "Abstract homotopy theory". Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 119 (1): 79–85. doi:10.2307/1994231.

^ Edgar H. Brown at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ "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.