Kenneth Brown (mathematician)
Kenneth Stephen Brown (born 1945) is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University, working in category theory and cohomology theory. Among other things, he is known for Ken Brown's lemma in the theory of model categories.[1] He is also the author of the book Cohomology of Groups (Graduate Texts in Mathematics 87, Springer, 1982).[2][3]
Brown earned his Ph.D. in 1971 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Daniel Quillen (Abstract Homotopy Theory and Generalized Sheaf Cohomology).[4] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]
References
- ^ Hovey, Mark (2007), Model Categories, Mathematical surveys and monographs, vol. 63, American Mathematical Society, p. 6, ISBN 9780821843611.
- ^ Review of Cohomology of Groups by Ross Staffeldt (1983), MR0672956.
- ^ Gruenberg, K. W. (1984). "Review: Cohomology of Groups by Kenneth S. Brown". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 11 (1): 240–244. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1984-15284-4.
- ^ Kenneth Stephen Brown at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-11-16.
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