Leo Moser

Leo Moser ( * April 11, 1921 in Vienna, Austria, † February 9, 1970 in Edmonton, Canada ) was a born in Austria grew up in Canada and mathematician who was known among other things for the Steinhaus -Moser notation.

Leo Moser was born in Vienna and emigrated as a child at the age of three years with his parents to Canada. Since early youth his health was impaired by heart, so that he therefore had to undergo an operation to 1967. He grew up in Winnipeg, where he studied at the University of Manitoba where he graduated in 1943 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Then Moser studied for the Master to 1945 at the University of Toronto and received his doctorate at the number theorist Alfred Brauer at the University of North Carolina. In 1951 he went to the University of Alberta, where he remained until his death at the age of only 48 years.

As a mathematician, he was like Paul Erdős problem-oriented and even put on a book with problems, which he also made accessible to colleagues happy. His research interests were initially the number theory and later combinatorics and graph theory.

Moser was married since 1946 and had four children.

Others

Leo Moser should not with his brother, the Canadian mathematician W. O. J. Moser (Willy Moser ) be confused, of the work " generator and relations for discrete groups" written with his teacher Coxeter.