Edgar H. Brown

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Edgar Henry Brown, Jr. (December 27, 1926 – December 22, 2021)^[1] was an American mathematician specializing in algebraic topology, and for many years a professor at Brandeis University.^[2]

Life

Brown was born in

In 1962–63 he visited the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey,^[4] and in 1964 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship.^[5] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974^[6] and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.

Contributions to mathematics

He made numerous contributions to mathematics including:

• Brown's representability theorem
• Brown–Peterson cohomology
• Brown–Gitler spectrum

His publications include:

• Brown, Edgar H. Jr. (1959). "Twisted tensor products. I.".
  MR 0105687
  .
• Brown, Edgar H. Jr. (1962). "Cohomology theories".
  MR 0138104
  .
• Brown, Edgar H. Jr.; Peterson, Franklin P. (1966). "A spectrum whose ${\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} _{p}}$ cohomology is the algebra of reduced ${\displaystyle p^{\rm {th}}}$ powers".
  MR 0192494
  .
• Brown, Edgar H. Jr.;
  MR 0391071
  .
• Brown, Edgar H. (1965). "Abstract homotopy theory".
  JSTOR 1994231
  .