Edgar Henry Brown, Jr. (December 27, 1926 – December 22, 2021)[1] was an American mathematician specializing in algebraic topology, and for many years a professor at Brandeis University.
He completed his bachelor's degree in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin in 1949.
He completed his master's degree in mathematics at Washington State University in 1951.
His doctoral supervisor was George W. Whitehead, and his doctoral dissertation was on Finite Computability of the Homotopy Groups of Finite Groups.
[3] In 1962–63 he visited the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey,[4] and in 1964 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship.