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{{short description|American mathematician}}
{{Infobox scientist
|name = Arthur Rubin
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|alma_mater = [[California Institute of Technology|Caltech]]
|thesis_title = Free Algebras in Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel Set Theory and Positive Elementary Inductions in Reasonable Structures
|thesis_url = http://search.proquest.com/docview/302912786/abstract
|thesis_year = 1978
|doctoral_advisor = [[Alexander S. Kechris]]
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'''Arthur Leonard Rubin''' (born 1956)<ref>{{cncitation|datetitle=MarchA 2018Festschrift 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 [[William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition|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 |accessdateaccess-date=2006-04-25 |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902184206/http://www.science.purdue.edu/Sequel/sequel%2038.pdf |archivedatearchive-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 |lastname-authorlist-style=amp=yes |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 [[Doctor of Philosophy|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 Party of California|Libertarian]] to represent the [[California's 55th State Assembly district|55th district]] in the [[1994 California State Assembly election|1984 California State Assembly elections]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Ward |first=Mike |title=Most Senators, Assemblymen Unchallenged |publisherwork=[[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 |subscriptionarchive-url=yes}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20121104023042/http://searchpqasb.proquestpqarchiver.com/docviewlatimes/676835132access/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 Alternate|url-status=dead Link]|archive-date=November via4, [[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 |editor1linkeditor1-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 |quote=Individual Putnam Fellows: Arthur L. Rubin, California Institute of Technology |website=[[Mathematical Association of America]] |title=The Mathematical Association of America's William Lowell Putnam Competition |url=http://www.maa.org/awards/putnam.html |accessdateaccess-date=2006-04-25 |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060421093143/http://www.maa.org/awards/putnam.html |archivedatearchive-date=21 April 2006 |deadurlurl-status=nolive |date=<!--undated--> |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Joseph |last=Gallian |authorlinkauthor-link=Joseph Gallian |title=The Putnam Competition from 1938-2009 |url=http://www.d.umn.edu/~jgallian/putnam06.pdf |accessdateaccess-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 |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |date=<!--undated-->}}</ref> In 1972, he tied for third place in the first [[United States of America Mathematical Olympiad|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://pqasbwww.pqarchiverproquest.com/latimes/docdocview/157440937.html |title=Caltech Math Whiz |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=May 13, 1974 |pages=D1-D2D1–D2 |last=Stingley |first=Jim |url-access=subscription |id=yes{{ProQuest|157440937}}}} [http://search.proquest.com/docview/157440937/ Alternate Link] via [[ProQuest]]. Reprinted and slightly altered in [[Madison Capital Times]] on July 6, 1974</ref>
== Publications ==
Rubin's dissertation was entitled ''[[Free object|Free]] [[Abstract algebra|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 |urlid=http://search.proquest.com/docview/{{ProQuest|302912786/abstract}} }} (Note: access might be depended on type of library institutional subscription available)</ref> In 1979, Rubin co-authored a paper on [[list coloring]] of [[graph theory|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 |lastname-authorlist-ampstyle=yesamp |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=http://www.renyi.hu/~p_erdos/1980-07.pdf}}</ref>
* {{cite journal |first1=A. L. |last1=Rubin |first2=J. E. |last2=Rubin |lastname-authorlist-ampstyle=yesamp |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 |lastname-authorlist-ampstyle=yesamp |year=1979 |title=Kinna–Wagner Selection Principles, Axioms of Choice and Multiple Choice |journal=Monatshefte furfür 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 |lastname-authorlist-ampstyle=yesamp |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 |authorlink2author-link2=Irving S. Reed |first2=I. S. |last2=Reed |first3=R. G. |last3=Lipes |first4=A. L. |last4=Rubin |first5=S. A. |last5=Butman |lastname-authorlist-style=amp=yes |year=1984 |title=Digital SAR processing using a fast polynomial transform |journal=[[List of IEEE publications|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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