Background
Rubin"s mother was Jean E. Rubin, a professor of mathematics at Purdue University and his father, Herman Rubin, a professor of statistics at the same university.
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Rubin"s mother was Jean E. Rubin, a professor of mathematics at Purdue University and his father, Herman Rubin, a professor of statistics at the same university.
He earned his Doctor of Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology in 1978, under the direction of Alexander South. Kechris.
Rubin unsuccessfully stood as a Libertarian to represent the 55th district in the 1984 California State Assembly elections.
Rubin published his first paper in 1969 at the age of 13. 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. A Putnam fellowship is awarded to the five highest ranked scorers in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, an annual competition for undergraduate college students enrolled at institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada. In 1972, he tied for third place in the first United States of America Mathematical Olympiad. In 1974, Rubin was the subject of an article in the Madison Capital Times, in which his Caltech undergraduate advisor is quoted as saying that someone of Rubin"s ability appeared in the United States "about once in every ten years".
