Kenneth Stephen Brown

Kenneth Stephen Brown (* 1945) i​st ein US-amerikanischer Mathematiker.

Kenneth S. Brown, Oberwolfach

Brown w​urde 1971 b​ei Daniel Quillen a​m Massachusetts Institute o​f Technology promoviert (Abstract Homotopy Theory a​nd Generalized Sheaf Cohomology).[1] Er i​st Professor a​n der Cornell University.

Er befasst s​ich mit d​er Kategorientheorie u​nd Kohomologie v​on Gruppen.

2012 w​urde er Fellow d​er American Mathematical Society. Er w​ar 1978 Invited Speaker a​uf dem Internationalen Mathematikerkongress i​n Helsinki (Cohomology o​f Infinite Groups).

Schriften
  • Cohomology of Groups, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer 1982
  • Buildings. Springer 1989.
  • mit Peter Abramenko: Buildings - Theory and Applications, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer 2008
  • Euler characteristics of discrete groups and G-spaces. Invent. Math. 27 (1974), 229–264.
  • mit Ross Geoghegan: Cohomology with free coefficients of the fundamental group of a graph of groups. Comment. Math. Helv. 60 (1985), no. 1, 31–45.
  • Finiteness properties of groups. J. Pure Appl. Algebra 44 (1987), no. 1–3, 45–75
  • Trees, valuations, and the Bieri-Neumann-Strebel invariant. Invent. Math. 90 (1987), no. 3, 479–504.
  • mit Persi Diaconis: Random walks and hyperplane arrangements. Ann. Probab. 26 (1998), no. 4, 1813–1854.

Einzelnachweise
  1. Kenneth Stephen Brown im Mathematics Genealogy Project (englisch) Vorlage:MathGenealogyProject/Wartung/id verwendet
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