Heinz Bauer
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{{Short description|German mathematician (1925–2002)}}
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|birth_place = Nuremberg, Germany
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|death_place = Erlangen, Germany
|fields = Mathematics
|workplaces = University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
|alma_mater = University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
|academic_advisors = Otto Haupt
|doctoral_students = Karl-Theodor Sturm
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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{{cite journal|author=Bauer, Heinz|title=Approximation and Abstract Boundaries|journal=Amer. Math. Monthly|volume=85|issue=8|year=1978|pages=632–647|url=http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/approximation-and-abstract-boundaries|doi=10.2307/2320332|jstor=2320332}} and became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1986. Bauer died in Erlangen.
References
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- {{cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0723-0869(02)80008-1 | journal = Expositiones Mathematicae
| volume = 20 | issue = 4 | year = 2002 | page = 289 | title = Heinz Bauer (1928–2002) | first = Robert C. | last = Dalang| doi-access = }}
- Konrad Jacobs, Obituary in Aequationes Mathematicae, Vol.65, 2003, p. 1
External links
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- [http://www.badw.de/publikationen/sonstige/nachrufe/2002/Bauer_Heinz.pdf Obituary by Wulf-Dieter Geyer, pdf Datei] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718201955/http://www.badw.de/publikationen/sonstige/nachrufe/2002/Bauer_Heinz.pdf |date=18 July 2011 }} (1,07 MB)
- [http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/5209/ Obituary in the Uni-Protokollen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613224553/http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/5209/ |date=13 June 2011 }}
- {{MacTutor Biography|id=Bauer}}
- [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=21254 Bauer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project]
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Category:Scientists from Nuremberg
Category:20th-century German mathematicians
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Category:Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
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Category:Presidents of the German Mathematical Society
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