Edgar Henry Brown, Jr. (December 27, 1926 – December 22, 2021) was 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.
Career
He completed his
Ph.D. in mathematics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954. His doctoral supervisor was
George W. Whitehead
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, and his doctoral dissertation was on ''Finite Computability of the Homotopy Groups of Finite Groups''.
In 1962–63 he visited the
Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, New Jersey, and in 1964 he received the
Guggenheim Fellowship
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. He was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974
and a Fellow of the
American Mathematical Society in 2012.
Contributions to mathematics
He made numerous contributions to mathematics including:
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Brown's representability theorem
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Brown–Peterson cohomology
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Brown–Gitler spectrum In the mathematical discipline of topology, the Brown–Gitler spectrum is a Spectrum (topology), spectrum whose cohomology is a certain cyclic module over the Steenrod algebra.
Brown–Gitler spectra are defined by the isomorphism:
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His publications include:
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References
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1926 births
2021 deaths
Mathematicians from Illinois
People from Oak Park, Illinois
Washington State University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Topologists
Brandeis University faculty
Institute for Advanced Study people
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society