IN MEMORIAM
Foster Lloyd Brown, 86;
Author, SUNY Professor
ONEONTA – Foster Lloyd Brown, SUNY Oneonta professor and best-selling college textbook author, passed away Dec. 1, 2017, at Albany Medical Center, of complications following heart surgery. He was 86.
He was born May 26, 1931, in Wheeling, W.Va., the eldest of three children of Durward B. Brown, a Methodist minister, and Dorothy Rine Brown, an author. Upon graduation from Shinnston High School in 1949, he served in the Navy.
Degrees included a bachelor's in botany from West Virginia University; a master's in plant physiology, also from WVU; and a doctorate in statistics from Cornell University, with post-doctoral research at the Imperial College London.
His co-authored book, “Statistical Concepts,” published by Harper & Row, became the world's best-selling paperback textbook on statistics, according to the publisher.
