Stefan Burr

Stefan Andrus Burr

Stefan Burr at his home, in February 2015.
Born 1940 (age 7576)[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.

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