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 Albert Einstein.

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 Albert Einstein 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 Paul Erdős)

Publications

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

• 1946: A Generalization of the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation, II (Ann. Math. Vol. 47: pp. 731 – 741) (with Albert Einstein)  www.jstor.org/stable/1969231

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

• 1949: Continued Fractions, Algebraic Functions and the Padé Table (with Richard Bellman)

• 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 Paul Erdős)

• 1956: On the number of absolute points of a correlation (Pacific J. Math. Vol. 56: pp. 83 – 96) (with Alan Jerome Hoffman, Morris Newman and Olga Taussky)

• 1956: Remark on the preceding paper. Algebraic equations satisfied by roots of natural numbers (Pacific J. Math. Vol. 6: pp. 97 – 98) (with Olga Taussky)

• 1956: A characteristic property of the circle, ellipse, and hyperbola (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 63: pp. 710 – 711) (with Paul Kelly)  www.jstor.org/stable/2309558

• 1958: Curvature in Hilbert geometries (with Paul Kelly)

• 1960: On the maximal number of pairwise orthogonal Latin squares of a given order (with Paul Erdős and Sarvadaman Chowla)

• 1962: On a problem in the theory of partitions

• 1971: Nonaveraging sets

As Editor

• 1951 -- 1964: On editorial board of Pacific Journal of Mathematics
• 1954 -- 1959: Managing editor of Pacific Journal of Mathematics

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Ernst Gabor Straus": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive