Kenneth Brown (mathematician)
Kenneth Stephen Brown | |
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Oberwolfach in 2004 | |
| Born | 1945 (age 78–79) |
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| Thesis | Abstract Homotopy Theory and Generalized Sheaf Cohomology (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel Quillen |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
| Doctoral students | Susan Hermiller David Webb |
Kenneth Stephen Brown (born 1945) is a professor of mathematics at
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, with thesis Abstract Homotopy Theory and Generalized Sheaf Cohomology.[4] He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1978 in Helsinki.[5] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]
References
- ISBN 9780821843611.
- MR0672956.
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- ^ Kenneth Stephen Brown at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-11-16.
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