Morton Brown

Who is Morton Brown?

Morton Brown is an American mathematician, who specializes in geometric topology.

In 1958 Brown earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin at 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 for their independent and nearly simultaneous proofs of the generalized Schoenflies hypothesis in geometric topology. Brown's short proof was elementary and fully general. Mazur's proof used advanced means and was not completely general—it used a special assumption which was removed only in the later versions.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.