Kenneth Brown (mathematician)
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Kenneth Stephen Brown (born 1945) is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University, working in category theory and 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]
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Kenneth Stephen Brown | |
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![]() Kenneth Brown at Oberwolfach in 2004 | |
Born | 1945 (age 78ā79) |
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Thesis | Abstract Homotopy Theory and Generalized Sheaf Cohomology (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | Daniel Quillen |
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Discipline | Mathematics |
Institutions | Cornell University |
Doctoral students | Susan Hermiller David Webb |
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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]