Arthur Rubin
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| Arthur Rubin | |
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 Arthur Rubin at the Aquarium of the Pacific in August 2006
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| Born | 1956 (age 52–53) |
| Residence | Southern California |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Alma mater | Caltech |
| Doctoral advisor | Alexander S. Kechris |
Arthur Leonard Rubin (born 1956) is an American mathematician who has earned a place among the five top-ranked undergraduate competitors (who are themselves not ranked against each other) in the William Lowell Putnam Competition four times (1970–73),[1] a feat matched by only six other undergraduate students since the first competition in 1938.[2] This achievement was lauded in the popular press, which described him as a genius, "Arthur Rubin is to the mathematics world what Pegasus would be to the Kentucky Derby."[3][4] Rubin's undergraduate adviser, Gary Lorden, was described as saying that a person of Rubin's mathematical ability shows up in the United States "about once in every ten years".[4]
His mother was J E H Rubin, Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University for over 35 years, and his father, H Rubin, Professor of Statistics at the same university.[5]
In 1978, Rubin earned his PhD from the California Institute of Technology, under the direction of Alexander S. Kechris. Rubin's dissertation was entitled "Free Algebras in Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel Set Theory and Positive Elementary Inductions in Reasonable Structures".[6]
Shortly after, in 1979, Rubin co-authored a paper on list coloring of graphs with Paul Erdős, giving him an Erdős number of 1.[7] In addition, Rubin has published papers on the following topics:
[edit] Other notable accomplishments
- U.S. Patent 7,089,452 in 2006.
- Third place tie in the first USA Mathematical Olympiad (1972).[12]
- Listed in 2007 Marquis Who's Who in America.[citation needed]
- Ran for California State Assembly (55th district) on the Libertarian Party ticket in the early 1980s.[13]
[edit] References
- ^ editors Gerald L. Alexanderson; Leonard F. Klosinski; Loren C. Larson (1985). The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition Problems and Solutions 1965-1984. Washington, D.C.: Mathematical Association of America. pp. 141–142. ISBN 0883854635.
- ^ Mathematical Association of America. "The Mathematical Association of America's William Lowell Putnam Competition". http://www.maa.org/awards/putnam.html. Retrieved 2006-04-25.
- ^ Stingley, Jim (May 13, 1974), Caltech Math Whiz, Los Angeles Times, http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/645142392.html?dids=645142392:645142392&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=May+13%2C+1974&author=JIM+STINGLEY&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=CALTECH+MATH+WHIZ&pqatl=google
- ^ a b Stingley, Jim (May 22, 1974). "Youth Calculates Success". St. Petersburg Times: p. 39. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QrkNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NXMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4825,962491&dq=arthur-rubin+putnam&hl=en. Retrieved 2009-10-16. Article is from Los Angeles Times Service
- ^ Dinah L. McClure, editor (2002). "Obituary: J E H Rubin". Sequel (38): 2. http://www.science.purdue.edu/Sequel/sequel%2038.pdf. Retrieved 2006-04-25.
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project. "Arthur Rubin". http://www.genealogy.ams.org/html/id.phtml?id=10490. Retrieved 2006-12-16.
- ^ P. Erdős, A. L. Rubin and H. Taylor (1979). "Choosability in graphs". Proc. West Coast Conf. On Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Congressus Numerantium XXVI: 125–157.
- ^ P. E. Howard, A. L. Rubin, & J. E. Rubin (1979). "Kinna–Wagner Selection Principles, Axioms of Choice and Multiple Choice". Monatshefte fur Mathematkik, 123 (4): 309–319. doi:.
- ^ Arthur L. Rubin, Jean E. Rubin: Weak Forms of the Axiom of Choice and the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis. Math. Log. Q. 39: 7-22 (1993)
- ^ E. C. Posner & A.L. Rubin, (1984). "Capacity of digital links in tandem.". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory IT-30 (3): 464–470. doi:.
- ^ T. K. Truong, I. S. Reed, R. G. Lipes, A. L. Rubin, & S. A. Butman, (1984). "Digital SAR processing using a fast polynomial transform". IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ASSP-32 (2): 419–425. doi:.
- ^ Greitzer, S (March 1973). "The First U.S.A Mathematical Olympiad". American Mathematical Monthly (Mathematical Association of America) 80 (3): 276–281. doi:. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9890%28197303%2980%3A3%3C276%3ATFUSAM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W. Retrieved December 5, 2006.
- ^ Ward, Mike (June 3, 1984). "Most Senators, Assemblymen Unchallenged". Los Angeles Times. http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22arthur+rubin%22+los+angeles+times+55th+district&um=1&ned=us&hl=en&scoring=a.
