04-22-94 Karl Rubin Receives Guggenheim Fellowship

     COLUMBUS -- A mathematician from The Ohio State University
is among 147 artists, scholars and scientists to be honored as
Guggenheim Fellows this year.
     Karl C. Rubin (43214), 38, professor of mathematics, was
awarded the fellowship for his study of how to apply Euler
systems to problems in number theory.  "Euler systems are just
one tool we can use to help solve problems in mathematics," said
Rubin.  "For instance, they have played an important role in the
recent attack on the 17th century puzzle called Fermat's Last
Theorem."
     The Guggenheim Foundation will award Rubin with $9,000, to
be used during the 1994-95 academic year.  Although the
Foundation is hosting a reception for fellows next month in New
York City, Rubin probably won't be able to go.  He is teaching
two graduate reading courses this quarter -- Mathematics 693 and
893, advanced courses in number theory.
     Though Rubin hasn't made final plan on how to use the award
money, he hopes to use it to travel and to work with
mathematicians at other institutions.
     "I'm grateful to the Guggenheim Foundation for supporting me
and others in this way," he said.  "I am also grateful to Ohio
State University for allowing me the flexibility to travel and to
work with other mathematicians."
     Rubin received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from
Princeton University in 1976 and his doctoral degree in
mathematics from Harvard University in 1981.  He joined the Ohio
State faculty in the fall of 1984.
     The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation selected its
Fellows from among 3,157 applicants this year, with grants
totaling $4,070,000.  Fellows are appointed on the basis of
unusually distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional
promise for future accomplishment.
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Contact:  Karl Rubin, (614) 292-8678.
Written by Sarah Williams Scherrer, (614) 292-9475.


[Submitted by: GERSTNER  (gerstner@ccgate.ucomm.ohio-state.edu)
               
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