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
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.