Lee Albert Rubel Explained

Lee Albert Rubel
Birth Date:1 December 1928
Nationality:American
Fields:Mathematics
Workplaces:University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alma Mater:University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thesis Title:Entire Functions and Ostrowski Sequences
Thesis Year:1954
Doctoral Advisor:Robert Creighton Buck
Known For:Analog computing

Lee Albert Rubel (1 December 1928 –) was a mathematician known for his contributions to analog computing.[1] [2] [3]

Career

Originally from New York, he held a Doctorate of Mathematics degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was professor of Mathematics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1954.[4]

He wrote for several scientific publications like the Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations International Journal, the Constructive Approximation mathematical journal, the American Mathematical Monthly, the Journal of Differential Equations, the Journal of Approximation Theory, the Journal of Symbolic Logic, the Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. He also collaborated to the Functional Analysis periodical, the Tohoku Mathematical, the Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, the Franklin Institute-engineering and Applied Mathematics, Combinatorica, Israel Journal of Mathematics, and Journal of Theoretical Neurobiology, among others.

He was a member of the American Mathematical Society for 43 years,[5] which published many of his papers in the Proceedings of the AMS.

He died on March 25, 1995, in Urbana, Illinois.[1]

Notes and References

  1. News: Lee A. Rubel, 66, Computer Scientist And Mathematician. Wolfgang Saxon. The New York Times. April 13, 1995. 4 November 2012.
  2. Empty space computes: The evolution of an unconventional supercomputer . Mills, J.W. . Parker, M. . Himebaugh, B. . Shue, C. . Kopecky, B. . Weileman, C. . Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Computing frontiers . 115–126 . 2006 . ACM.
  3. The nature of the extended analog computer . Mills, J.W. . Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena . 237 . 9 . 1235–1256 . 2008 . Elsevier . 10.1016/j.physd.2008.03.041. 2008PhyD..237.1235M .
  4. Web site: Lee Albert Rubel . Genealogy Project . North Dakota State University and American Mathematical Society . 3 November 2012.
  5. Mathematics People . Notices of the AMS . 42 . 7 . 780 .