Gavin Brown was a distinguished mathematician, born and educated in Scotland. He moved to Australia in 1975 and was a key contributor to the area of harmonic analysis at the University of New South Wales. Gavin’s career saw him become vice-chancellor of both the University of Adelaide and the University of Sydney, before he became the founding president of the Royal Institution of Australia. When Brown died in Adelaide on Christmas Day 2010, we lost a distinguished academic and research mathematician, a huge contributor to Australian education and society and a generous human being with a wonderful sense of humour.

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 加文·布朗：1942–2010

加文·布朗是一位杰出的数学家，在苏格兰出生并接受教育。他于 1975 年移居澳大利亚，是新南威尔士大学谐波分析领域的重要贡献者。加文的职业生涯使他成为阿德莱德大学和悉尼大学的副校长，然后成为澳大利亚皇家学会的创始校长。 2010 年圣诞节，布朗在阿德莱德去世，我们失去了一位杰出的学术和研究数学家，一位对澳大利亚教育和社会做出巨大贡献的人，一位慷慨且具有美妙幽默感的人。