Lawrence G. Brown

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Lawrence G. Brown (born February 6, 1943 in St. Louis , Missouri ) is an American mathematician who studies operator algebras .

Brown graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1965 and a doctorate in 1968 with George Mackey ( On the Structure of Locally Compact Groups ). Until his retirement he was a professor at Purdue University . In 1975 he received a research grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellowship ).

With Peter Fillmore and Ronald G. Douglas he developed the Brown-Douglas-Fillmore theory in the theory of operator algebras, into which they introduced techniques of algebraic topology.

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Lawrence G. Brown in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  3. ↑ Fillmore, Douglas, Brown Extensions of C * -algebras and K-homology , Annals of Mathematics, Volume 105, 1977, pp. 265-324
  4. ↑ Jonathan Rosenberg Brown-Douglas-Fillmore Theory , Encyclopedia of Mathematics
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Lawrence G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri