Morton Brown
Encyclopedia
Morton Brown is an American mathematician, who specializes in geometric topology
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In 1958 Brown earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison under R. H. Bing. From 1960 to 1962 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study
. Afterwards he became a professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
With Barry Mazur
in 1965 he won the Oswald Veblen prize for their independent and nearly simultaneous proofs of the generalized Schoenflies hypothesis
in geometric topology.
Geometric topology
In mathematics, geometric topology is the study of manifolds and maps between them, particularly embeddings of one manifold into another.- Topics :...
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In 1958 Brown earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison under R. H. Bing. From 1960 to 1962 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, is an independent postgraduate center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It was founded in 1930 by Abraham Flexner...
. Afterwards he became a professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
With Barry Mazur
Barry Mazur
-Life:Born in New York City, Mazur attended the Bronx High School of Science and MIT, although he did not graduate from the latter on account of failing a then-present ROTC requirement. Regardless, he was accepted for graduate school and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959,...
in 1965 he won the Oswald Veblen prize for their independent and nearly simultaneous proofs of the generalized Schoenflies hypothesis
Schönflies problem
In mathematics, the Schoenflies problem or Schoenflies theorem, of geometric topology is a sharpening of the Jordan curve theorem by Arthur Schoenflies.-Original formulation:...
in geometric topology.