A life dedicated to informatics: an obituary for Prof. Friedrich L. Bauer

Autor:	Manfred Broy
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Computer Networks and Communications Thursday Informatics Art history Algebra over a field Obituary Software Prisoners of war Information Systems Mathematics
Zdroj:	Acta Informatica. 52:299-301
ISSN:	1432-0525 0001-5903
DOI:	10.1007/s00236-015-0241-2
Popis:	On Thursday, the 26th April 2015, Friedrich L. Bauer, Professor emeritus at the Faculty of Informatics at the TechnischenUniversitatMunchen, passed away at the age of 90 following a prolonged illness. Informatics inGermany looses one of itsmost influential pioneers.With his contributions, Friedrich L. Bauer decisively influenced over several stages the development of a discipline that shaped our world like no other in the last 50years. After WW2 and a short period of being a prisoner of war, Friedrich Bauer started his studies in mathematics and physics. He worked towards his Ph.D. under the supervision Prof. Fritz Bopp, the successor of Arnold Sommerfeld at the chair of Theoretical Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen. Already after 3years, he obtained his doctoral degree. Inspired by a report of the Swiss professor Heinz Rutishauser on the topic of electrical computers, Bauer studiedClaude Shannon’s switching algebra aswell as thework of John von Neumann. Bauer’s attention was drawn to a confidential seminar of mathematician Robert Sauer, professor for Mathematics for Engineers at the Technischen Universitat Munchen
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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