Background
He was born in Avihayil, Israel in the 1940s to Haim and Zila Zubkovski.
He was born in Avihayil, Israel in the 1940s to Haim and Zila Zubkovski.
Harvard University.
Like many other Israeli-Jews of his time, he changed his surname in the "50s to Ziv, as part of the popular Hebraization of surnames movement. Abraham studied at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he earned his Doctor of Philosophy, 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.
In 1972 Ziv was part of the founding team of International Business Machines Corporation R&Doctorate Labs in Israel, where he stayed until retirement.
In his time at International Business Machines Corporation he wrote 21 more publications and 6 patents that are still owned by International Business Machines Corporation to this day. Paul Erdős; Abraham Ginzburg.
Abraham Ziv (1961). "Theorem in the additive number theory" (Postdoctoral fellows). renyi.hu.
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