Arthur Leonard Rubin (born 1956)[1] is an American mathematician and aerospace engineer.

[3] He earned his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1978, under the direction of Alexander S.

[4] Rubin unsuccessfully stood as a Libertarian to represent the 55th district in the 1984 California State Assembly elections.

[9] 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".

[10] Rubin's dissertation was entitled Free Algebras in Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel Set Theory and Positive Elementary Inductions in Reasonable Structures.