Barbara Burke Hubbard

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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.

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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  [ fr ] 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]

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References

  1. ↑ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2021-11-04
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Biographical sketch of Barbara Burke Hubbard, Matrix Editions, retrieved 2021-11-04
  3. ↑ "Vincent J. Burke, 53, Dies; Los Angeles Times Writer", The New York Times , 8 May 1973
  4. 1 2 3 Martin, Jean (September–October 1999), "Mathematical Translator", Harvard Magazine
  5. ↑ "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
  6. ↑ Les lauréats du Prix d'Alembert 1984–2000 (in French), Société mathématique de France, retrieved 2021-11-04
  7. ↑ Reviews of Ondes et ondelettes and The world according to wavelets:
  8. ↑ Reviews of Vector calculus, linear algebra, and differential forms:
  9. ↑ Review of Biochronological correlations: Bernhard K. Maloney, GeoJournal, JSTOR   41146128
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