Edgar Brown

Title

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Mathematics

Expertise

Graduate and Undergraduate Education; Research in Algebraic and Differential Topology

Degrees

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D.

Washington State University, M.A.

University of Wisconsin Center School, B.S.

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Contact

Email:	brown@brandeis.edu
Office:	Goldsmith Math Building, 221

Awards and Honors

Senior Research Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford (1986)

British SERC Senior Research Fellow, Cambridge and Oxford Universities (1982)

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1974)

British Science Research Council Fellow (1973)

Guggenheim Fellow (1965)

NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship (1962)

Scholarship

Brown,Edgar, Brown, E. H., SzczarbaR. H. "Real and Rational Homotopy Theory." Handbook of Algebraic Topology. Elsevier, 1995

Brown,Edgar, Brown, E. H., Szczarba, R. H. "Split complexes, continuous cohomology and Lie algebras." Quarterly Journal 45. (1994): 279-299.

Brown,Edgar, Brown, E. H., Szczarba, R. H. "Real and rational homotopy theory for spaces with arbitrary fundamental group." Duke Mathematical Journal 71. (1993): 229-316.

Brown,Edgar, Brown, E. H., Szczarba, R. H. "Continuous cohomology and Real homotopy type II." Asterisque 191, Societe Mathematique De France (1990).

Brown,Edgar, Peterson, F. "A universal space for the normal bundles of n-manifolds." Comm. Math. Helv 54. (1979): 405-430.

Brown,Edgar, Gitler, S. "A spectrum whose cohomology is a certain cyclic module over the steenrod algebra." Topology 12. (1973): 283-295.

Brown,Edgar, Peterson, F. "A spectrum whose mod p cohomology is the algebra of reduced pth powers." Quarterly Journal of Math 17. (1966).

Brown,Edgar, Peterson, F. "Kervaire invariant of 8k+2 maniforls." American Journal of Mathematics 98. (1966): 815-826.

Brown,Edgar. "Representability of functors in abstract homotopy theory." Trans. Almer. Math. Soc 119. (1965): 23-23.