Ernst G. Straus | |
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Born | February 25, 1922 |
Died | July 12, 1983 (age 61) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Nationality | American-German |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Hebrew University Columbia University |
Known for | Erdős–Straus conjecture |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Doctoral advisor | F. J. Murray[1] |
Other academic advisors | Albert Einstein |
Doctoral students | Aviezri Fraenkel Daihachiro Sato Krishnaswami Alladi |
Ernst Gabor Straus (February 25, 1922 – July 12, 1983) was a German-American mathematician of Jewish origin who helped found the theories of Euclidean Ramsey theory and of the arithmetic properties of analytic functions. His extensive list of co-authors includes Albert Einstein, Paul Erdős, Richard Bellman, Béla Bollobás, Sarvadaman Chowla, Ronald Graham, Lee Albert Rubel, Mathukumalli V Subbarao, László Lovász, Carl Pomerance, Moshe Goldberg, and George Szekeres.