Stefan Burr
Stefan Andrus Burr | |
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Stefan Burr at his home, in February 2015. | |
Born | 1940 (age 75–76)[1] |
Residence | Morristown, New Jersey |
Fields | Mathematics and Computer Science |
Institutions |
The City College of New York AT&T Long Lines |
Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley (A.B., Mathematics) Princeton University (M.A.; Ph.D. Mathematics, 1969) |
Doctoral advisor | Bernard Morris Dwork[2] |
Known for |
Ramsey Theory Number theory |
Stefan Andrus Burr (born 1940) 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 linearly growing Ramsey numbers.
Selected publications
- "On uniform elementary estimates of arithmetic sums". Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 39: 497–502. 1973. doi:10.1090/s0002-9939-1973-0314784-8. MR 0314784.
- with P. Erdõs and J. H. Spencer: "Ramsey theorems for multiple copies of graphs". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 209: 87–99. 1975. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1975-0409255-0. MR 0409255.
- with P. Erdõs, R. J. Faudree, C. C. Rousseau and R. H. Schelp: "Ramsey numbers for the pair sparse graph-path or cycle". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 269: 501–512. 1982. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1982-0637704-5. MR 637704.
References
- ↑ "Burr, Stefan A. (Stefan Andrus) 1940-", WorldCat listing, OCLC WorldCat Identities
- 1 2 Stefan Andrus Burr at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ↑ "Paul Erdõs' papers". Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics - http://www.renyi.hu. Retrieved 8 March 2010. External link in
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