Glen Bredon

Glen Eugene Bredon ( born August 24, 1932 in Fresno, California, † 8 May 2000 ) was an American mathematician who dealt with topology.

Bredon graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1954 and from Harvard University with a master's degree in 1955. 1958 he received his doctorate at Harvard ( Some theorems on transformation groups). He was an assistant professor from 1960 and later professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and from 1969 at Rutgers University, where he became Professor Emeritus in 1993.

1958-1960 and 1966/67, he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.

The Bredon cohomology of topological spaces under the action of a topological group is named after him.

In the late 1980s he wrote the program DOS.MASTER for Apple II computer. He is also the author of the program Merlin ( an assembler ) and Prosel for Apple computers.

He was married since 1963 with the folk singer and studied mathematics Anne Bredon ( b. 1930, nee Loeb ) and had two children with her. She is the author of the song Baby, I'm gonna leave you, the interpreted, among others, Joan Baez and Led Zeppelin.

Writings

• Topology and Geometry, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag 1993, 1996
• Sheaf Theory, McGraw Hill, 1967, 2nd edition, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer Verlag 1997
• Introduction to Compact Transformation Groups, Academic Press 1972
• Equivariant Cohomology Theories, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer Verlag 1967
• John W. Wood: Non- orientable surfaces in orientable 3- manifolds, Inventiones Mathematicae, 7, 1969, 83-110
• The cohomology ring structure of a fixed point set, Annals of Mathematics, 80, 1964, 524-537
• Fixed point sets of actions on Poincaré duality spaces, Topology 12, 1973, 159-175