Stefan Burr

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Stefan Andrus Burr
Stefan Burr during an informal lecture at the University of Cincinnati in September 2009.
Born	1940 (age 73–74)^[1]
Residence	New Jersey
Fields	Mathematics and Computer Science
Institutions	The City College of New York AT&T Long Lines
Alma mater	Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	Bernard Morris Dwork^[2]
Known for	Ramsey Theory Number theory
Notes He has an Erdős number of one.

Stefan Andrus Burr is a mathematician and computer scientist. He is a retired professor of Computer Science at The City College of New York.

Burr received his Ph.D. in 1969 from Princeton University under the supervision of Bernard Dwork; his thesis research involved the Waring–Goldbach problem in number theory, which concerns the representations of integers as sums of powers of prime numbers.^[2]

Many of his subsequent publications involve problems from the field of Ramsey theory. He has published 27 papers with Paul Erdős.^[3] The Erdős–Burr conjecture, published as a conjecture by Erdős and Burr in 1975 and still unsolved, states that sparse graphs have linear Ramsey numbers.

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↑ 2.0 2.1 Stefan Andrus Burr at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
↑ "Paul Erdõs' papers". Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics - http://www.renyi.hu. Retrieved 8 March 2010.

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Name	Burr, Stefan A.
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Short description	American mathematician
Date of birth	1940
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