Hubert Lewis Bray is a mathematician and differential geometer. He is known for having proved the Riemannian Penrose inequality. He works as professor of mathematics and physics at

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

Early life and education

He earned his

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and B.S. degrees in

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

and

Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

in 1992 from

Rice University William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University, is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. Established in 1912, the university spans 300 acres. Rice University comp ...

and obtained his Ph.D. in 1997 from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

under the mentorship of Richard Melvin Schoen.

Career

He was an invited speaker at the 2002

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(in the section of

differential geometry Differential geometry is a Mathematics, mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of Calculus, single variable calculus, vector calculus, lin ...

). He is one of the inaugural fellows of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

. Hubert was appointed professor of mathematics in 2004, an additionally professor of physics in 2019. In 2019, he was appointed director of undergraduate studies of Duke's mathematics department.

Personal life

Hubert is the grandson of Hubert Evelyn Bray, professor of mathematics at

and the first person awarded a Ph.D. by the then

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. Hubert Bray and his brother Clark Bray share similar educations and jobs, both having studied at

(undergraduate),

(graduate), and are professors of mathematics at

References

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