Morton Brown

This article is about the mathematician. For the athlete, see Morton Browne.

Morton Brown (August 12, 1931 – August 3, 2024[1]) was an American mathematician who specialized in geometric topology.

Life and career

Brown was born in New York City on August 12, 1931. 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[2] for their independent and nearly simultaneous proofs of the generalized Schoenflies hypothesis[3] 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.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Obituary — Morton Brown | The University Record". record.umich.edu. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  2. ^ "Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry".
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.


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