Heinz Bauer

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{{Short description|German mathematician (1925–2002)}}

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|birth_date = {{birth date|1928|1|31|df=y}}

|birth_place = Nuremberg, Germany

|death_date = {{death date and age|2002|8|15|1928|1|31|df=y}}

|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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|awards = Bavarian Order of Merit
Fellow of the Leopoldina
Chauvenet Prize (1980)

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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.