Stefan Burr

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.

Stefan Burr
Burr in 2015
Born	Stefan Andrus Burr 1940 (age 83–84)
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley (A.B., Mathematics) Princeton University (M.A.; Ph.D. Mathematics, 1969)
Known for	Ramsey Theory Number theory
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics and Computer Science
Institutions	The City College of New York AT&T Long Lines
Doctoral advisor	Bernard Morris Dwork

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.

Many of his subsequent publications involve problems from the field of Ramsey theory. He has published 27 papers with Paul Erdős. The Burr–Erdős conjecture, published as a conjecture by Burr and Erdős in 1975, solved only in 2015, states that sparse graphs have linearly growing Ramsey numbers.

Selected publications

• Burr, Stefan A. (1973). "On uniform elementary estimates of arithmetic sums". Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (3): 497–502. doi:10.1090/s0002-9939-1973-0314784-8. MR 0314784.
• with P. Erdõs and J. H. Spencer: Burr, S. A.; Erdős, P.; Spencer, J. H. (1975). "Ramsey theorems for multiple copies of graphs". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 209: 87–99. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1975-0409255-0. MR 0409255.
• with P. Erdõs, R. J. Faudree, C. C. Rousseau and R. H. Schelp: Burr, S. A.; Erdős, P.; Faudree, R. J.; Rousseau, C. C.; Schelp, R. H. (1982). "Ramsey numbers for the pair sparse graph-path or cycle". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 269 (2): 501–512. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1982-0637704-5. MR 0637704.