Ernst G. Straus

Ernst G. Straus
BornFebruary 25, 1922
DiedJuly 12, 1983 (age 61)
NationalityAmerican-German
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materHebrew University
Columbia University
Known forErdős–Straus conjecture
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorF. J. Murray[1]
Other academic advisorsAlbert Einstein
Doctoral studentsAviezri 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.


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