Ernst G. Straus

Ernst G. Straus
Born	February 25, 1922 Munich, Germany
Died	July 12, 1983 (age 61) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Citizenship	United States
Nationality	American-German
Fields	Mathematics
Alma mater	Hebrew University Columbia University
Doctoral advisor	F. J. Murray
Other academic advisors	Albert Einstein
Doctoral students	Aviezri Fraenkel Daihachiro Sato Krishnaswami Alladi
Known for	Erdős–Straus conjecture

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, László Lovász, Carl Pomerance, and George Szekeres.

Straus was born in Munich, February 25, 1922, the youngest of five children (Isa, Hana, Peter, Gabriella) of a prominent Zionist attorney, Elias (Eli) Straus, and his wife , 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. After a three-year stint at the Institute for Advanced Study, Straus took a position at the University of California, Los Angeles, which he kept for the rest of his life. Straus died July 12, 1983 of heart failure.

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