Francis Brown (mathematician)

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Frances Brown
Born (1977-11-05) 5 November 1977 (age 47)
NationalityFranco-British
Education Eton College
University of Cambridge
École normale supérieure (Paris) / University of Bordeaux
Awards Élie Cartan Prize
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions All Souls College, Oxford
Academic advisors Pierre Cartier
Website https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/professor-francis-brown

Francis Brown is a Franco-British mathematician who works on arithmetic geometry and quantum field theory.

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Career

Brown studied at the University of Cambridge and the École normale supérieure (Paris) and University of Bordeaux, [1] with Pierre Cartier, graduating in 2006 with a Ph.D. [2] He then spent time at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and Mittag-Leffler Institute. In 2007 he moved to Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche where he won a European Research Council starter grant in 2010. In 2012, he moved to the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and was awarded a CNRS Bronze Medal and Élie Cartan Prize for his proof of two conjectures related to multiple zeta functions. [3] [4] He had a Von Neumann Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study from 2014 to 2015 and is currently a senior research fellow at All Souls College, at the University of Oxford.

Brown's work is on the intersection of algebraic geometry and number theory. He has published on Tate Motives. [5] He also works on Zeta functions in quantum field theory.

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References

  1. "Professor Francis Brown". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. All Souls College. 2023. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  2. Francis Brown at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "Francis Brown". www.cnrs.fr. Centre national de la recherche scientifique. September 2012. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  4. "Prix Élie Carton (Mathématique)" (PDF). www.cnrs.fr. Académie des sciences. 2012-10-03. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  5. Brown, Francis (2012). "Mixed Tate motives over ". Annals of Mathematics. 172 (2): 949–976. arXiv: 1102.1312 . doi:10.4007/annals.2012.175.2.10. JSTOR   23234629.