Edgar H. Brown

Edgar Henry Brown Jr. (27 December 1926 to 22 December 2021) was an American mathematician specializing in algebraic topology, for many years a professor at Brandeis University. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, he completed a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin in 1949, a master's degree at Washington State University in 1951, and a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954 under George W. Whitehead, with a dissertation on finite computability of the homotopy groups of finite groups. He visited the Institute for Advanced Study in 1962 and 1963 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964. His contributions include Brown's representability theorem, Brown-Peterson cohomology and the Brown-Gitler spectrum.