Ernst G. Straus
Mathematician, Academic
1922 – 1983
Who was Ernst G. Straus?
Ernst Gabor Straus was a German-American mathematician 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 and Paul Erdős as well as other notable researchers including Richard Bellman, Béla Bollobás, Sarvadaman Chowla, Ronald Graham, László Lovász, Carl Pomerance, and George Szekeres. It is due to his collaboration with Straus that Einstein has Erdős number 2.
Straus was born in Munich, Germany, February 25, 1922, the youngest of five children of a prominent attorney, Eli Straus, and his wife Rahel Straus née Goitein, a medical doctor and feminist. Ernst Gabor Straus came to be known as a mathematical prodigy from a very young age. Following the death of his father, the family fled the Nazi regime for Palestine in 1933, and Straus was educated at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Although he never received an undergraduate degree, Straus began graduate studies at Columbia University in New York, earning a PhD in 1948 under F. J. Murray. Two years later, he became the assistant of Albert Einstein.
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- Born
- Feb 25, 1922
Munich - Also known as
- Ernst Straus
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Germans
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- United States of America
- Munich
- Died
- Jul 12, 1983
Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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