Daniel Burrill Ray, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Daniel Burrill Ray

American university teacher

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1928

Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-2000

Profession: university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Daniel Burrill Ray (5 February 1928, Cleveland, Ohio – 19 February 1979) was an American mathematician.
He is known for Ray-Singer torsion.Ray received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude in 1949 from Harvard College and his Ph.D.
from Cornell University in 1953 under Mark Kac with thesis On Spectra of Second Order Differential Operators.
As a postdoc he was a Frank B.
Jewett Fellow in 1953/54 at Bell Laboratories.
From 1957 to 1979 he was a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.In 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1961 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.
He was a Sloan Fellow.