Hubert Lewis Bray is a mathematician and differential geometer. He is known for having proved the

Riemannian Penrose inequality In mathematical general relativity, the Penrose inequality, first conjectured by Sir Roger Penrose, estimates the mass of a spacetime in terms of the total area of its black holes and is a generalization of the positive mass theorem. The Riemannia ...

. He works as professor of mathematics and physics at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

Early life and education

Hubert is the brother of Clark Bray and grandson of Hubert Evelyn Bray, also American mathematicians. He earned his B.A. and B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Physics, respectively, in 1992 from

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

and obtained his Ph.D. in 1997 from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, under the mentorship of Richard Melvin Schoen.

Career

He was an invited speaker at the 2002

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

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(in the section of

differential geometry Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multili ...

). 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

Rice Institute The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is an international agricultural research and training organization with its headquarters in Los Baños, Laguna, in the Philippines, and offices in seventeen countries. IRRI is known for its work ...

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

(undergraduate),

(graduate), and are professors of mathematics at

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