Background
Alfred Gray was born in Dallas, Texas and studied mathematics at the University of Kansas.
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He received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1964 and spent four years at University of California, Berkeley.
Career
He also made contributions in the fields of complex variables and differential equations. From 1970–1998 he was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He died in Bilbao, Spain of a heart attack while working with students in a computer lab around 4 Department of Administration and Management, on October 27, 1998.
In the broad area of differential geometry, he made specific contributions in classifying various types of geometrical structures, such as (Kähler manifolds and almost Hermitian manifolds).
He published a book on tubes and is the author of two textbooks and over one hundred scientific articles His books were translated into Spanish, Italian, Russian and German).
He was a pioneer in the use of computer graphics in teaching differential geometry (particularly the geometry of curves and surfaces) and of using electronic computation in teaching both differential geometry and ordinary differential equations.
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American