{{Short description|American mathematician (born 1956)}} {{about||the American actor, stage manager, and theater producer|Arthur Rubin (theater producer)}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Arthur Rubin |image = Arthur Rubin edit.jpg |caption = Rubin at the Aquarium of the Pacific in August 2006 |birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1956}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |residence = |ethnicity = |fields = Mathematics<br>Aerospace engineering |workplaces = |alma_mater = Caltech |thesis_title = Free Algebras in Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel Set Theory and Positive Elementary Inductions in Reasonable Structures |thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/302912786/abstract |thesis_year = 1978 |doctoral_advisor = Alexander S. Kechris |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = |notable_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |awards = |signature = <!--(filename only)--> |footnotes = }} '''Arthur Leonard Rubin''' (born 1956)<ref>{{citation|title=A Festschrift for Herman Rubin|volume=45|series=Lecture notes – monograph series|publisher=Institute of Mathematical Statistics|editor-first=Anirban|editor-last=DasGupta|year=2004|isbn=9780940600614|contribution=Conversations with Herman Rubin|first=M. E.|last=Bock|author-link=Mary Ellen Bock|pages=408–417|jstor=4356327}}.</ref> is an American mathematician and aerospace engineer. He was named a Putnam Fellow on four consecutive occasions from 1970 to 1973.
==Life and career== Rubin's mother was Jean E. Rubin, a professor of mathematics at Purdue University, and his father was Herman Rubin, a professor of statistics at the same university.<ref>{{cite journal |editor-first=Dinah L. |editor-last=McClure |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Obituary: J.E.H. Rubin |year=2002 |journal=Sequel |issue=38 |pages=2 |url=http://www.science.purdue.edu/Sequel/sequel%2038.pdf |access-date=2006-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902184206/http://www.science.purdue.edu/Sequel/sequel%2038.pdf |archive-date=2006-09-02}}</ref> Arthur co-authored his first paper with his mother in 1969 at the age of 13.<ref>{{cite journal |first1=A. L. |last1=Rubin |first2=J. E. |last2=Rubin |name-list-style=amp |year=1969 |title=Extended operations and relations on the class of ordinal numbers |journal=Fundamenta Mathematicae |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=227–242 |url=http://pldml.icm.edu.pl/pldml/element/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-fmv65i1p23bwm|doi=10.4064/fm-65-2-227-242 |doi-access=free }} (The default language of this webpage is Polish, but it can be changed to English via the language option on the upper right)</ref> He earned his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1978, under the direction of Alexander S. Kechris.<ref name="rubin">{{MathGenealogy|id=10490}}</ref>
Rubin unsuccessfully stood as a Libertarian to represent the 55th district in the 1984 California State Assembly elections.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ward |first=Mike |title=Most Senators, Assemblymen Unchallenged |work=Los Angeles Times |date=June 3, 1984 |url=https://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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104023042/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 |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 4, 2012 |url-access=subscription |id={{ProQuest|676835132}}}}</ref>
== Awards and honors == As an undergraduate, Rubin was named a Putnam Fellow on four occasions, the first time in 1970, aged 14, making him the youngest Fellow to date.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-first=Gerald L. |editor1-last=Alexanderson |editor1-link=Gerald L. Alexanderson |editor2-first=Leonard F. |editor2-last=Klosinski |editor3-first=Loren C. |editor3-last=Larson |title=The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition Problems and Solutions 1965–1984 |publisher=Mathematical Association of America |date=1985 |pages=141–142 |isbn=0-88385-463-5 |oclc=55235548 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |website=Mathematical Association of America |title=The Mathematical Association of America's William Lowell Putnam Competition |url=http://www.maa.org/awards/putnam.html |access-date=2006-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060421093143/http://www.maa.org/awards/putnam.html |archive-date=21 April 2006 |url-status=live |date=<!--undated--> |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Joseph |last=Gallian |author-link=Joseph Gallian |title=The Putnam Competition from 1938-2009 |url=http://www.d.umn.edu/~jgallian/putnam06.pdf |access-date=2015-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091013085917/http://www.d.umn.edu/~jgallian/putnam06.pdf |archive-date=2009-10-13 |url-status=dead |date=<!--undated-->}}</ref> In 1972, he tied for third place in the first USA Mathematical Olympiad.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Greitzer |first=S |title=The First U.S.A Mathematical Olympiad |journal=American Mathematical Monthly |volume=80 |issue=3 |pages=276–281 |publisher=Mathematical Association of America |date=March 1973 |doi=10.2307/2318449 |jstor=2318449}}</ref>
In 1974, Rubin was the subject of an article in the ''Madison Capital Times'', in which his Caltech undergraduate advisor was quoted as saying that someone of Rubin's ability appeared in the United States "about once in every ten years".<ref name=lat-1974may13>{{cite news |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/157440937 |title=Caltech Math Whiz |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=May 13, 1974 |pages=D1–D2 |last=Stingley |first=Jim |url-access=subscription |id={{ProQuest|157440937}}}} Reprinted and slightly altered in Madison Capital Times on July 6, 1974</ref>
== Publications == Rubin's dissertation was entitled ''Free Algebras in Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel Set Theory and Positive Elementary Inductions in Reasonable Structures''.<ref name="rubin"/><ref>{{cite thesis |type=Ph.D. |last=Rubin |first=Arthur Leonard |title=Free Algebras in Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel Set Theory and Positive Elementary Inductions in Reasonable Structures |publisher=California Institute of Technology |year=1978 |oclc=436995833 |id={{ProQuest|302912786}} }} (Note: access might be depended on type of library institutional subscription available)</ref> In 1979, Rubin co-authored a paper on list coloring of graphs with Paul Erdős, giving him an Erdős number of 1.<ref>{{cite book |author1-link=Paul Erdős |first1=Paul |last1=Erdős |first2=Arthur L. |last2=Rubin |first3=Herbert |last3=Taylor |name-list-style=amp |year=1980 |contribution=Choosability in graphs |title=Proc. West Coast Conf. on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing (Humboldt State Univ., Arcata, Calif., 1979) |series=Congressus Numerantium |volume=XXVI |pages=125–157 |mr=0593902 |contribution-url=https://www.renyi.hu/~p_erdos/1980-07.pdf}}</ref> * {{cite journal |first1=A. L. |last1=Rubin |first2=J. E. |last2=Rubin |name-list-style=amp |year=1969 |title=Extended operations and relations on the class of ordinal numbers |journal=Fundamenta Mathematicae |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=227–242 |url=http://pldml.icm.edu.pl/pldml/element/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-fmv65i1p23bwm|doi=10.4064/fm-65-2-227-242 |doi-access=free }} * {{cite journal |first1=P. E. |last1=Howard |first2=A. L. |last2=Rubin |first3=J. E. |last3=Rubin |name-list-style=amp |year=1979 |title=Kinna–Wagner Selection Principles, Axioms of Choice and Multiple Choice |journal=Monatshefte für Mathematik |volume=123 |issue=4 |pages=309–319 |doi=10.1007/BF01326766|s2cid=18138945 }} * {{cite journal |first1=E. C. |last1=Posner |first2=A.L. |last2=Rubin |name-list-style=amp |year=1984 |title=Capacity of digital links in tandem |journal=IEEE Transactions on Information Theory |volume=IT-30 |issue=3 |pages=464–470 |doi=10.1109/TIT.1984.1056917|bibcode=1984ITIT...30..464P }} * {{cite journal |first1=T. K. |last1=Truong |author-link2=Irving S. Reed |first2=I. S. |last2=Reed |first3=R. G. |last3=Lipes |first4=A. L. |last4=Rubin |first5=S. A. |last5=Butman |name-list-style=amp |year=1984 |title=Digital SAR processing using a fast polynomial transform |journal=IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing |volume=ASSP-32 |issue=2 |pages=419–425 |doi=10.1109/TASSP.1984.1164307 }}
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