Heinz Bauer
Introduction '''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 ** Konrad Jacobs, Obituary in ''Aequationes Mathematicae'', Vol.65, 2003, p. 1
External links **  Obituary by Wulf-Dieter Geyer, pdf Datei (1,07 MB)*  Obituary in the Uni-Protokollen* *  Bauer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project