Ernst G. Straus
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 |
| 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.