Kenneth Brown (mathematician)

Kenneth Brown

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 (Abstract Homotopy Theory and Generalized Sheaf Cohomology).[4] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

References

  1. Hovey, Mark (2007), Model Categories, Mathematical surveys and monographs 63, American Mathematical Society, p. 6, ISBN 9780821843611.
  2. Review of Cohomology of Groups by Ross Staffeldt (1983), MR 0672956.
  3. Gruenberg, K. W. (1984). "Review: Cohomology of Groups by Kenneth S. Brown". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 11 (1): 240–244. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1984-15284-4.
  4. Kenneth Stephen Brown at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-11-16.


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