Karl Rubin

Karl Rubin (born January 27, 1956) is an American mathematician at University of California, Irvine as Thorp Professor of Mathematics. His research interest is in elliptic curves. He was the first mathematician (1986) to show that some elliptic curves over the rationals have finite Tate-Shafarevich groups. It is widely believed that these groups are always finite.

Rubin graduated from Princeton University in 1976, and obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981. His thesis advisor was Andrew Wiles. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1974, and a Sloan Research Fellow in 1985. In 1988 he received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award, and in 1992 won the American Mathematical Society Cole Prize in number theory.

References

* K. Rubin, Tate-Shafarevich groups of elliptic curves with complex multiplication.Adv. Studies in Pure Math. 17 (1989), 409-419

External links

* [http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1180 UCI press release on Rubin's appointment to Edward and Vivian Thorp Chair in Mathematics]
* [http://math.uci.edu/~krubin/ Rubin's Home page]
* [http://www.msri.org/publications/ln/msri/1993/outreach/fermat/1/index.html Rubin's talk in 1993 about elliptic curves at MSRI]