Stephen R. Hilbert is an American mathematician best known as co-author of the Bramble–Hilbert lemma, which he published with James H. Bramble in 1970.
[1] Hilbert's area of specialty is numerical analysis.
[4][5] Additionally, he taught mathematics at Cornell University as a visiting program professor during the 2003–2004 academic year.
[3] As a teenager, he attended Regis High School in New York City.
[3][7] He completed his dissertation, Numerical Solutions of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, with Bramble as his advisor.