Morton Brown

Morton Brown ( born August 12, 1931 in New York City ) is an American mathematician who deals with topology.

Brown received his doctorate in 1958 at the University of Wisconsin at RH Bing. 1960 to 1962 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. After that, he was a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

With Barry Mazur 1965 he was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize for their simultaneous proof of the generalized Schoen Fliess 's conjecture in geometric topology, which says that two-dimensional surfaces in three-dimensional space (as opposed to the one-dimensional node ) can always be " untied " ( see also set of Schoenflies ). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.