Barbara Burke Hubbard (born 1948)[1] is an American science journalist, mathematics popularizer, textbook author, and book publisher, known for her books on wavelet transforms and multivariable calculus.
Life
Burke Hubbard is the daughter of Los Angeles Times reporter Vincent J. Burke, and spent a year in high school living in Moscow when Burke was stationed there in 1964.[2][3] She was an undergraduate at Harvard University, initially majoring in biology but switching to English,[2] and graduating in 1969.[4] She became a science writer for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a journalist for The Ithaca Journal,[2] and was the 1981 winner of the AAAS Westinghouse Science Journalism Award in the small newspaper category, for her articles on acid rain in The Ithaca Journal.[5]
She married mathematician John H. Hubbard, with whom she has four children, and with her family has split her time between Ithaca, New York, and Marseille, France, with shorter-term stays elsewhere.[2]
Books
Burke Hubbard is the author of a popular mathematics book on wavelet transforms, originally published in French as Ondes et ondelettes: la saga d’un outil mathématique (Pour la Science, 1995). It won the Prix d'Alembert of the Société mathématique de France,[4][6] and Hubbard became the first winner of this prize who was not French.[4] The English edition of the same book, The world according to wavelets: the story of a mathematical technique in the making, was published in 1996 by A K Peters, with a second edition in 1998. It was also translated into German by M. Basler as Wavelets: Die Mathematik der kleinen Wellen (Birkhäuser, 1997).[7] With her husband, she wrote a textbook on multivariate calculus, Vector calculus, linear algebra, and differential forms: A unified approach (Prentice Hall, 1999; 5th ed., 2015).[8] She has also translated the book Biochronological correlations by Jean Guex from French into English.[9]
In 2001, Burke Hubbard founded the mathematics book publisher Matrix Editions.[2]
References
- ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2021-11-04
- ^ a b c d e Biographical sketch of Barbara Burke Hubbard, Matrix Editions, retrieved 2021-11-04
- ^ "Vincent J. Burke, 53, Dies; Los Angeles Times Writer", The New York Times, 8 May 1973
- ^ a b c Martin, Jean (September–October 1999), "Mathematical Translator", Harvard Magazine
- ^ "1981 AAAS awards presented in Washington", Science, 215 (4533): 652, February 1982, doi:10.1126/science.215.4533.652, PMID 17842388
- ^ Les lauréats du Prix d'Alembert 1984–2000 (in French), Société mathématique de France, retrieved 2021-11-04
- ^ Reviews of Ondes et ondelettes and The world according to wavelets:
- Paul J. Campbell, Mathematics Magazine, doi:10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996546, ProQuest 229838249
- David Jerison, The American Mathematical Monthly, [1]
- J. S. Joel, Zbl 0855.42020
- Fritz Keinert, MR1385922
- Katherine Livingston, Science, JSTOR 2890406
- Francois G. Meyer, "Foray beyond Fourier", Nature, doi:10.1038/385130a0
- Mary Beth Ruskai, American Scientist, JSTOR 27856711
- Erika B. Truckson, The Mathematics Teacher, JSTOR 27970079, ProQuest 204664525
- L'Enseignement Mathématique, [2]
- ^ Reviews of Vector calculus, linear algebra, and differential forms:
- Gizem Karaali, MAA Reviews, [3]
- Helmut Köcher, Zbl 0918.00001
- James Allen Morrow, SIAM Review, JSTOR 20454184
- Jeffrey Nunemacher, The American Mathematical Monthly, doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.124.6.572, JSTOR 10.4169/amer.math.monthly.124.6.572
- Sergei V. Rogosin, Zbl 1397.00010
- Warwick Tucker, The American Mathematical Monthly, doi:10.2307/3647874, JSTOR 3647874
- W. P. Ziemer, MR1657732
- ^ Review of Biochronological correlations: Bernhard K. Maloney, GeoJournal, JSTOR 41146128
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