Heinz Bauer (31 January 1928 – 15 August 2002) was a German mathematician.
Heinz Bauer | |
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| Born | 31 January 1928 Nuremberg, Germany |
| Died | 15 August 2002 (aged 74) Erlangen, Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| Awards | Bavarian Order of Merit Fellow of the Leopoldina Chauvenet Prize (1980) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| Academic advisors | Otto Haupt |
| Doctoral students | Karl-Theodor Sturm |
Bauer studied at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and received his PhD there in 1953 under the supervision of Otto Haupt and finished his habilitation in 1956, both for work with Otto Haupt. After a short time from 1961 to 1965 as professor at the University of Hamburg he stayed his whole career at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His research focuses were potential theory, probability theory, and functional analysis.
Bauer received the Chauvenet Prize in 1980[1] and became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1986. Bauer died in Erlangen.
References
edit- ^ Bauer, Heinz (1978). "Approximation and Abstract Boundaries". Amer. Math. Monthly. 85 (8): 632–647. doi:10.2307/2320332. JSTOR 2320332.
- Dalang, Robert C. (2002). "Heinz Bauer (1928–2002)". Expositiones Mathematicae. 20 (4): 289. doi:10.1016/S0723-0869(02)80008-1.
- Konrad Jacobs, Obituary in Aequationes Mathematicae, Vol.65, 2003, p. 1
External links
edit- Heinz Bauer in the German National Library catalogue
- Obituary by Wulf-Dieter Geyer, pdf Datei Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (1,07 MB)
- Obituary in the Uni-Protokollen Archived 13 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Heinz Bauer", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Bauer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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