Education
In 1958 Brown earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin at Madison under R. H. Bing.
In 1958 Brown earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin at Madison under R. H. Bing.
From 1960 to 1962 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. Afterwards he became a professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Brown"s short proof was elementary and fully general.
Mazur"s proof was also elementary, but it used a special assumption which was removed via later work of Morse.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
American Mathematical Society.