Morton Brown
American mathematician
Morton Brown (born August 12, 1931, in New York City, New York) is an American mathematician, who specializes in geometric topology.
In 1958 Brown earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-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[1] for their independent and nearly simultaneous proofs of the generalized Schoenflies hypothesis[2] in geometric topology. Brown's short proof was elementary and fully general. Mazur's proof was also elementary, but it used a special assumption which was removed via later work of Morse.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
References
External links
- Morton Brown at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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Recipients of the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
- 1964 Christos Papakyriakopoulos
- 1964 Raoul Bott
- 1966 Stephen Smale
- 1966 Morton Brown and Barry Mazur
- 1971 Robion Kirby
- 1971 Dennis Sullivan
- 1976 William Thurston
- 1976 James Harris Simons
- 1981 Mikhail Gromov
- 1981 Shing-Tung Yau
- 1986 Michael Freedman
- 1991 Andrew Casson and Clifford Taubes
- 1996 Richard S. Hamilton and Gang Tian
- 2001 Jeff Cheeger, Yakov Eliashberg and Michael J. Hopkins
- 2004 David Gabai
- 2007 Peter Kronheimer and Tomasz Mrowka; Peter Ozsváth and Zoltán Szabó
- 2010 Tobias Colding and William Minicozzi; Paul Seidel
- 2013 Ian Agol and Daniel Wise
- 2016 Fernando Codá Marques and André Neves
- 2019 Xiuxiong Chen, Simon Donaldson and Song Sun
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