Mathematician:Ernst Gabor Straus
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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
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