Daniel Burrill Ray
Daniel Burrill Ray (born February 5, 1928 in Cleveland , Ohio , † February 19, 1979 ) was an American mathematician .
Ray attended Brooklyn Polytechnic, received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1949, and received his PhD from Cornell University in 1953 under Mark Kac (On Spectra of Second Order Differential Operators). As a post-doctoral student , he was a Frank B. Jewett Fellow at Bell Laboratories in 1953/54 . In 1957 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . In the 1960s he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
At the beginning of the 1970s he introduced Analytical Torsion (Ray-Singer Torsion) with Isadore M. Singer .
In 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1961 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Membership book IAS 1980, there stated as deceased. Exact date of birth from his dissertation.
- ↑ Daniel Burrill Ray in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ Bell Lab Records, March 1953, pdf
- ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed June 3, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ray, Daniel Burrill |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th February 1979 |