Stephen R. Hilbert is an American

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best known as co-author of the Bramble–Hilbert lemma, which he published with James H. Bramble in 1970. Hilbert's area of specialty is

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. He has been a professor of mathematics at

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since 1968. Additionally, he taught mathematics at

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as a visiting program professor during the 2003–2004 academic year.

Early life and education

Hilbert was born in

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. As a teenager, he attended Regis High School in

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. He received his BS in mathematics from the

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in 1964 and his PhD in

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from the

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in 1969. He completed his dissertation, ''Numerical Solutions of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations'', with Bramble as his advisor.

Awards and honors

*Distinguished College Teaching of Mathematics Award – 1994 – Seaway Section of the

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*Dana Teaching Fellow – 1985 *Dana Teaching Fellow – 1982 *Outstanding Faculty Award – 1979 – School of Humanities and Sciences, Ithaca College

Publications

*''Barron's GMAT''. Jaffe, Eugene D., and Stephen Hilbert, 2009, Barron's Educational Series, , 497 pgs *''Calculus: An Active Approach with Projects''. Hilbert, Stephen, et al., 1993–1994, John Wiley & Sons; Reissued 2010 by Mathematical Association of America, , 307 pgs *''Estimation of Linear Functionals on Sobolev Spaces with Application to Fourier Transforms and Spline Interpolation.'' Bramble, James H., and Stephen R. Hilbert. ''SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis'' (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) (Vol. 7, No. 1 (Mar., 1970)): 112–124. *''A Mollifier Useful for Approximations in Sobolev Spaces and Some Applications to Approximating Solutions of Differential Equations''. Hilbert, Stephen. ''Mathematics of Computation'' (American Mathematical Society) (Vol. 27, No. 121 (Jan., 1973)): 81–89.

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