cultural critic and historian of the Western United States Clarence Taylor (B.A. 1975), professor emeritus of History at Baruch College and author of books on racism, religion, and civil rights in 20th-century America Law Alan S. Becker (B.A. 1966), Attorney, member of the Florida House of Representatives, 1972–1978 Jules Coleman (B.A. 1968), scholar of law and jurisprudence and the Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School Alan M. Dershowitz (B.A. 1959), Harvard Law School professor and author Stephen Gillers (B.A. 1964), New York University School of Law professor and expert in legal ethics Gerald Gunther (A.B. 1949), William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, among the 20 most widely cited legal scholars of the 20th century Mary Noe (B.A. 1982), educator; writer; lecturer; Assistant Professor of Law, division of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies, St. John's University Mathematics Anatole Beck (B.A. 1951), mathematician, known for his Linear search problem Paul Cohen (1953), winner of the Fields Medal Violet Haas (B.A. 1947), American applied mathematician specializing in control theory and optimal estimation; professor of electrical engineering at Purdue Elaine Koppelman (B.A. 1957), mathematician; James Beall Professor of Mathematics at Goucher College Allen R Miller (B.S. 1965), mathematician and major contributor to the field of special functions, especially confluent hypergeometric functions Teri Perl (B.A. 1947), American mathematics educator, co-founder of The Learning Company, pioneering educational software publisher Richard M. Pollack (B.A. 1956), geometer and Professor Emeritus at the Courant Institute of New York University; founding co-editor of the journal Discrete and Computational Geometry Irving Reiner (B.A. 1944), mathematician, dealt with representation theory of algebras and groups, and number theory Theodore J. Rivlin (B.A. 1948), mathematician, specializing in approximation theory Donald Solitar (B.A. 1953), American/Canadian mathematician, known for his work in combinatorial group theory Henry Wallman (B.S. 1933), mathematician, known for his work in lattice theory, dimension theory, topology, and electronic circuit design Gerard Washnitzer (B.S. 1947), mathematician Philosophy Allan Gotthelf (B.A. 1963), professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and specialist in Objectivism and Aristotle Eli Hirsch (B.A. 1960), philosopher, the Charles Goldman Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University Christia Mercer (B.A. 1974), Gustave M. Berne Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University Jay Newman (B.A. 1973), philosopher concerned with the philosophy of religion, philosophy of culture, and the ethics of mass communication Ben-Ami Scharfstein (B.A. 1939), prominent Israeli