Bruce Lee Rothschild is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles specializing in combinatorial mathematics. Rothschild was born in 1941 in Los Angeles. He got his Ph.D. from Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 in 1967. Rothschild wrote several papers with Paul Erdős

Paul Erdos

Paul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician. Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory...

, giving him an Erdős number

Erdos number

The Erdős number describes the "collaborative distance" between a person and mathematician Paul Erdős, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers.The same principle has been proposed for other eminent persons in other fields.- Overview :...

 of 1. In 1971, he shared the Pólya Prize (SIAM)

Pólya Prize (SIAM)

The Pólya Prize is a prize in mathematics, awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. First given in 1969, the prize is named after Hungarian mathematician George Pólya...

 with four other mathematicians for his work on Ramsey theory

Ramsey theory

Ramsey theory, named after the British mathematician and philosopher Frank P. Ramsey, is a branch of mathematics that studies the conditions under which order must appear...

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Bruce has collaborated with American mathematicians Joel Spencer and Ronald Graham on key texts related to Ramsey Theory.
Bruce currently teaches Mathematical Game Theory at UCLA and has made many contributions to the development of mathematics education.