Morton Brown

Morton Brown (August 12, 1931 – August 3, 2024

With Barry Mazur in 1965 he won the Oswald Veblen prize for their independent and nearly simultaneous proofs of the generalized Schoenflies hypothesis in geometric topology. 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 the late 1980s, Brown implemented a large reform to the calculus classes taught at the University of Michigan. His changes later became a model for a national calculus reform movement.