Abraham Ziv
| Ziv Abraham | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 6, 1940 Israel |
| Died |
March 5, 2013 (aged 72) Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Alma mater | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and Harvard University |
| Thesis | A contribution to the zero sum theorem (1961) |
Abraham Ziv (March 6, 1940–March 5, 2013 (aged 72)) was an Israeli mathematician, known for his contributions to the Zero-sum problem as part of the discoverers of the Erdős–Ginzburg–Ziv theorem.
Life
He was born in Avihayil, Israel in the 1940s to Haim and Zila Zubkovski. Like many other Israeli-Jews of his time, he changed his surname in the 1950s to Ziv, as part of the popular Hebraization of surnames movement. Abraham studied at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D., in mathematics, after receiving his master's degree from Harvard University a few years earlier. In 1961, at the age of 21, he proved along with Paul Erdős and Abraham Ginzburg the general result that every sequence of elements of contains terms that sum to zero.[1]
In 1972 Ziv was part of the founding team of IBM R&D Labs in Israel, where he stayed until retirement. In his time at IBM he wrote 21 more publications[2] and 6 patents that are still owned by IBM to this day.[3]
Academic papers
- Paul Erdős; Abraham Ginzburg; Abraham Ziv (1961). "Theorem in the additive number theory" (PDF). renyi.hu. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
References
- ↑ "zbMATH - the first resource for mathematics". zbmath.org. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ↑ "Abraham Ziv". 65.54.113.26. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
- ↑ "Patents by Inventor Abraham Ziv - Justia Patents Database". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
External links
- Hazewinkel, Michiel, ed. (2001), "Erdős-Ginzburg-Ziv theorem", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4
- PlanetMath Erdős, Ginzburg, Ziv Theorem