Kenneth Brown (mathematician)

Kenneth Stephen Brown
Kenneth Stephen Brown
	Kenneth Brown at Oberwolfach in 2004
Born	1945 (age 75–76)
Academic background
Alma mater	Stanford University (AB); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD);
Thesis	Abstract Homotopy Theory and Generalized Sheaf Cohomology (1971)
Doctoral advisor	Daniel Quillen
Academic work
Discipline	Mathematics
Institutions	Cornell University
Notable 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 (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]

References

Hovey, Mark (2007), Model Categories, Mathematical surveys and monographs, 63, American Mathematical Society, p. 6, ISBN 9780821843611.
Review of Cohomology of Groups by Ross Staffeldt (1983), MR0672956.
Gruenberg, K. W. (1984). "Review: Cohomology of Groups by Kenneth S. Brown". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (N.S.). 11 (1): 240–244. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1984-15284-4.
Kenneth Stephen Brown at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers
List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-11-16.

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