Heinz Bauer

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Heinz Bauer
Heinz Bauer
Born	(1928-01-31)31 January 1928 Nuremberg, Germany
Died	Erlangen, Germany
Nationality	German
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Alma mater	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Doctoral advisor	Otto Haupt
Doctoral students	Karl-Theodor Sturm
Notable awards	Bavarian Order of Merit Fellow of the Leopoldina Chauvenet Prize (1980)

Heinz Bauer (31 January 1928 – 15 August 2002) was a German mathematician.

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 focus was the Potential theory, Probability theory and Functional analysis

Bauer received the Chauvenet Prize in 1980 and became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1986. Bauer died in Erlangen.

References

• Konrad Jacobs, Obituary in Aequationes Mathematicae, Vol.65, 2003, p. 1

External links

• Heinz Bauer in the German National Library catalogue
• Obituary by Wulf-Dieter Geyer, pdf Datei (1,07 MB)
• Obituary in the Uni-Protokollen
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• Bauer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project