Lawrence G. Brown

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Lawrence G. Brown (born February 6, 1943, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American mathematician who studies operator algebras.

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Brown studied at Harvard University, graduating in 1968 with George Mackey as his advisor and thesis entitled On the Structure of Locally Compact Groups. He was a professor at Purdue University until his retirement.

With Peter A. Fillmore and Ronald G. Douglas, he developed the Brown-Douglas-Fillmore theory in the theory of operator algebras based on techniques of algebraic topology.

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