Mathematician:Ernst Gabor Straus

Mathematician
German-American mathematician who helped found the theories of Euclidean Ramsey theory and of the arithmetic properties of analytic functions.

Worked as the assistant to.

Nationality
German-born American

History

 * Born: 25 February 1922 in Munich, Germany
 * 1933: Emigrated to Palestine on the death of his father
 * 1941: Enrolled at Columbia University in New York
 * 1942: Obtained Master's degree
 * 1944: Selected by to be his assistant
 * 1944: Moved to Princeton
 * 1948: Obtained doctorate at Columbia
 * 1948: Enrolled at University of California as an instructor in mathematics
 * Died: 12 July 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Erdős-Straus Conjecture (with )

Publications

 * 1945: The Influence of the Expansion of Space on the Gravitation Fields surrounding the Individual Stars (with )




 * 1949: Some Results in Einstein's Unified Field Theory


 * 1949: Continued Fractions, Algebraic Functions and the Padé Table (with )


 * 1950: On Entire Functions with Algebraic Derivatives at Certain Algebraic Points


 * 1951: On the Polynomials whose Derivatives have Integral Values at the Integers


 * 1953: On linear independence of sequences in a Banach space (with )








 * 1958: Curvature in Hilbert geometries (with )


 * 1960: On the maximal number of pairwise orthogonal Latin squares of a given order (with and )


 * 1962: On a problem in the theory of partitions


 * 1971: Nonaveraging sets

As Editor

 * 1951 -- 1964: On editorial board of
 * 1954 -- 1959: Managing editor of