Morton Brown

Morton Brown (born 12 August 1931, New York) is an American mathematician, who specializes in geometric topology.

In 1968 Brown earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin at 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.

References

1. ^ http://www.ams.org/profession/prizes-awards/ams-prizes/veblen-prize
2. ^ Brown, Morton (1960). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.. 66. pp. 74–76.  MR0117695

External links

• Morton Brown at Mathematics Genealogy Project

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