Kenneth Stephen Brown

Kenneth S. Brown, Oberwolfach

Kenneth Stephen Brown (* 1945 ) is an American mathematician .

Brown received his PhD in 1971 from Daniel Quillen at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( Abstract Homotopy Theory and Generalized Sheaf Cohomology ). He is a professor at Cornell University .

He deals with the category theory and cohomology of groups.

In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society . In 1978 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki ( Cohomology of Infinite Groups ).

Fonts

Cohomology of Groups , Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer 1982
Buildings . Springer 1989.
with Peter Abramenko: Buildings - Theory and Applications , Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer 2008
Euler characteristics of discrete groups and G-spaces. Invent. Math. 27: 229-264 (1974).
with 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.
with Persi Diaconis: Random walks and hyperplane arrangements. Ann. Probab. 26 (1998), no. 4, 1813-1854.