Kenneth Stephen Brown | |
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Born | 1945 (age 76–77) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | Abstract Homotopy Theory and Generalized Sheaf Cohomology (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | Daniel Quillen |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Mathematics |
Institutions | Cornell University |
Doctoral students | Susan Hermiller David Webb |
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]
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]
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