Morton Brown
Morton Brown (born on August 12, 1931, in New York City, New York, and died on August 3, 2024 in Bellevue, Washington) was an American mathematician, who specialized in geometric topology.
In 1958 Brown earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under R. H. Bing. From 1960 to 1962 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. Afterwards he became a professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
With Barry Mazur in 1965 he won the Oswald Veblen prize[1] for their independent and nearly simultaneous proofs of the generalized Schoenflies hypothesis[2] in geometric topology. Brown's short proof was elementary and fully general. Mazur's proof was also elementary, but it used a special assumption which was removed via later work of Morse.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry".
- ^ Brown, Morton (1960). "A proof of the generalized Schoenflies theorem". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 66 (2): 74–76. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1960-10400-4. MR0117695
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
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