caption doctoral_advisor death_date death_place birth_place awards nationality fields workplaces birth_date doctoral_students image article_title name alma_mater
heinz bauer otto haupt 15 august 2002 erlangen , germany nuremberg , germany bavarian prize -lrb- 1980 -rrb- order of merit fellow of the leopoldina chauvenet german mathematician university of erlangen-nuremberg 31 january 1928 karl-theodor sturm heinz bauer.jpg heinz bauer
 heinz bauer university of erlangen-nuremberg
heinz bauer

heinz bauer -lrb- 31 january 1928 -- 15 august 2002 -rrb- 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 .
