Education
He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Manitoba in 1943, and a Master of Science from the University of Toronto in 1945.
mathematician university professor
He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Manitoba in 1943, and a Master of Science from the University of Toronto in 1945.
After two years of teaching he went to the University of North Carolina to complete a Doctor of Philosophy, supervised by Alfred Brauer. There, in 1950, he began suffering recurrent heart problems. He took a position at Texas Technical College for one year, and joined the faculty of the University of Alberta in 1951, where he remained until his death at the age of 48.
In 1966, Moser posed the question "What is the region of smallest area which will accommodate every planar arc of length one?".
Rephrased to consider the planar arc a "worm", this became known as Moser"s worm problem and is still an open problem in discrete geometry.