Nationality Israeli Name Abraham Ziv | Died March 5, 2013, Israel Fields Mathematics | |
Born March 6, 1940
Israel ( 1940-03-06 ) Thesis A contribution to the zero sum theorem (1961) Alma mater Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Harvard University | ||
Abraham Ziv ((1940-03-06)March 6, 1940–March 5, 2013(2013-03-05) (aged 72)) was an Israeli mathematician, known for his contributions to the Zero-sum problem as one of the discoverers of the Erdős–Ginzburg–Ziv theorem.
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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
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 and 6 patents.