Heinz Bauer

For the German publisher, see Heinz Bauer (publisher).

Heinz Bauer
Born	(1928-01-31)31 January 1928 Nuremberg, Germany
Died	15 August 2002(2002-08-15) (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

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 focuses were 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

• 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

• 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