Francis Brown (mathematician)
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University of Cambridge
École normale supérieure (Paris) / University of Bordeaux
Francis Brown | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 November 1977 |
| Education | Eton College University of Cambridge École normale supérieure (Paris) / University of Bordeaux |
| Awards | Élie Cartan Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | All Souls College, Oxford |
| Academic advisors | Pierre Cartier |
| Website | https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/professor-francis-brown |
Francis Brown is a Franco-British mathematician who works on arithmetic geometry and quantum field theory.
Brown studied at the University of Cambridge and the École normale supérieure (Paris) and University of Bordeaux,[1] with Pierre Cartier, graduating in 2006 with a Ph.D.[2] He then spent time at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and Mittag-Leffler Institute. In 2007 he moved to Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche where he won a European Research Council starter grant in 2010. In 2012, he moved to the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and was awarded a CNRS Bronze Medal and Élie Cartan Prize for his proof of two conjectures related to multiple zeta functions.[3][4] He had a Von Neumann Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study from 2014 to 2015 and is currently a senior research fellow at All Souls College, at the University of Oxford.
Brown's work is on the intersection of algebraic geometry and number theory. He has published on Tate Motives.[5] He also works on Zeta functions in quantum field theory.
