Barbara Burke Hubbard
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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ 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, Bibcode:1982Sci...215..652., 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
