[2][3] She was an undergraduate at Harvard University, initially majoring in biology but switching to English,[2] and graduating in 1969.
[5] She married mathematician John H. Hubbard, with whom she has four children, and with her family has split her time between Ithaca, New York, and Marseille, France, with shorter-term stays elsewhere.
[2] Burke Hubbard is the author of a popular mathematics book on wavelet transforms, originally published in French as Ondes et ondelettes: la saga d’un outil mathématique (Pour la Science, 1995).
It won the Prix d'Alembert [fr] of the Société mathématique de France,[4][6] and Hubbard became the first winner of this prize who was not French.
It was also translated into German by M. Basler as Wavelets: Die Mathematik der kleinen Wellen (Birkhäuser, 1997).