Arthur Rubin
| Arthur Rubin | |
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 at the Aquarium of the Pacific in August 2006 |
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| Born | 1956 (age 55–56) |
| Residence | Southern California |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Alma mater | Caltech |
| Doctoral advisor | Alexander S. Kechris |
| Other academic advisors | Gary Lorden |
Arthur Leonard Rubin is an American mathematician. As of 2011 he had retired from a career in aerospace engineering to attend law school at Western State University.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Rubin was born to Jean E. Rubin, a professor of mathematics at Purdue University and Herman Rubin, a professor of statistics at the same university.[2]
[edit] Education
Rubin earned his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1978, under the direction of Alexander S. Kechris.
[edit] Awards
As an undergraduate, Rubin was named a Putnam Fellow on four occasions (1970–73),[3] a number matched at the time by only six other students since the first competition in 1938.[4][original research?] He first became a Putnam Fellow at the age of 14 and was, at the time, the youngest Fellow to date.[5] In 1972, he tied for third place in the first USA Mathematical Olympiad.[6]
While at Caltech, he was the subject of a newspaper article in which his advisor expressed his belief that someone of his ability appeared in the United States "about once in every ten years."[7]
[edit] Publications
Rubin's dissertation was entitled Free Algebras in Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel Set Theory and Positive Elementary Inductions in Reasonable Structures.[8] In 1979, Rubin co-authored a paper on list coloring of graphs with Paul Erdős, giving him an Erdős number of 1.[9]
- 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:10.1007/BF01326766.
- E. C. Posner & A.L. Rubin, (1984). "Capacity of digital links in tandem.". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory IT-30 (3): 464–470. doi:10.1109/TIT.1984.1056917.
- 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:10.1109/TASSP.1984.1164307.
[edit] Politics
Rubin ran for California State Assembly (55th district) on the Libertarian Party ticket in the early 1980s.[10] He is also a Wikipedia editor, and in that role has advocated greater representation of 9/11 conspiracy theories there.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Cohen, Noam (September 11, 2011), "On Wikipedia, Echoes of 9/11 ‘Edit Wars’", New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/business/media/on-wikipedia-911-dissent-is-kept-on-the-fringe.html.
- ^ Dinah L. McClure, editor (2002). "Obituary: J. E. H. Rubin". Sequel (38): 2. Archived from the original on 2006-09-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20060902184206/http://www.science.purdue.edu/Sequel/sequel+38.pdf. Retrieved 2006-04-25. "Professor Jean E. Hirsh Rubin, 75, died on October 25, 2002, in Lafayette. Born on October 29, 1926 in New York City, she had lived in West Lafayette since 1967. She received her M.A. degree from Queens College, the M.S. from Columbia University and her Ph.D from Stanford University. She was a Professor of Mathematics at Purdue for 35 years. She married Herman Rubin, Professor of Statistics, in 1952. She is also survived by her son, Arthur Rubin of Brea, California, and her daughter, Leonore Findsen of Orlando, Florida"
- ^ editors Gerald L. Alexanderson; Leonard F. Klosinski; Loren C. Larson (1985). The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition Problems and Solutions 1965–1984. 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. "Individual Putnam Fellows: Arthur L. Rubin, California Institute of Technology"
- ^ Joseph Gallian. "The Putnam Competition from 1938-2009". http://web.archive.org/web/20080517091511/http://www.d.umn.edu/~jgallian/putnam06.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
- ^ Greitzer, S (March 1973). "The First U.S.A Mathematical Olympiad". American Mathematical Monthly (Mathematical Association of America) 80 (3): 276–281. doi:10.2307/2318449. JSTOR 2318449.
- ^ Stingley, Jim (May 13, 1974). "Caltech Math Whiz". Los Angeles Times. http://www.newspaperarchive.com/SiteMap/FreePdfPreview.aspx?img=105008218. "Arthur Rubin is to the mathematics world what Pegasus would be to the Kentucky Derby. In the universe of calculation, he is a 400-pound wrestler matched against Don Knotts."
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project. "Arthur Rubin". http://www.genealogy.ams.org/html/id.phtml?id=10490. Retrieved 2006-12-16.
- ^ Erdős, Paul; Rubin, Arthur L.; Taylor, Herbert (1980). "Choosability in graphs". Proc. West Coast Conf. on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing (Humboldt State Univ., Arcata, Calif., 1979). Congressus Numerantium. XXVI. pp. 125–157. MR0593902. http://www.renyi.hu/~p_erdos/1980-07.pdf.
- ^ Ward, Mike (June 3, 1984). "Most Senators, Assemblymen Unchallenged". Los Angeles Times. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/676835132.html?dids=676835132:676835132&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jun+03,+1984&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Most+Senators,+Assemblymen+Unchallenged&pqatl=google.
