Edward B. Curtis

Edward Baldwin Curtis (March 13, 1933 – April 2, 2024) was an American mathematician.

After graduate study from 1958 to 1959 at the University of Oxford, he returned to Harvard and earned a Ph.D. there in 1962.

His thesis The Lower Central Series for Free Group Complexes was supervised by Raoul Bott.

His research interests included graph theory and flow networks.

In 1967 for his studies on algebraic topology he received a Guggenheim Fellowship[1][2] and in 1972 the Leroy P. Steele Prize for his paper Simplicial homotopy theory.