Edgar H. Brown


Edgar Henry Brown, Jr. 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.

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.
Brown has received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964. 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 has made numerous contributions to mathematics including:
His publications include: