Erhard Heinz

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Erhard Heinz

Erhard Heinz (born April 30, 1924 in Bautzen ; † December 29, 2017 in Göttingen ) was a German mathematician . He worked in the field of partial differential equations , in particular the Monge-Ampèreschen equations .

Heinz received his doctorate in 1951 at the Georg August University in Göttingen under Franz Rellich on contributions to the perturbation theory of spectral decomposition . He then worked as an associate professor and later as a professor in Stanford, Munich and from 1966 in Göttingen.

Since 1992 he has been emeritus at the University of Göttingen. Since 1970 he has been a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

His doctoral students include Hans Wilhelm Alt , Wolf von Wahl , Willi Jäger , Helmut Werner , Reinhold Böhme , Friedrich Tomi and Friedrich Sauvigny .

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He was primarily concerned with the theory of existence and regularity for systems of nonlinear, partial differential equations, with fundamental and trend-setting applications in differential geometry and mathematical physics . He achieved decisive results, among other things, on the theory of surfaces with prescribed mean curvature, in particular of minimal surfaces , on Weyl's embedding problem and on systems of the Monge-Ampère type .

In 1994 he was awarded the Georg Cantor Medal of the DMV .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Göttinger Tageblatt. January 13, 2018, accessed January 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ http://num.math.uni-goettingen.de/schaback/ancestors.pdf
  3. ^ Members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen: Erhard Heinz. (No longer available online.) Göttingen Academy of Sciences, archived from the original on August 9, 2016 ; accessed on August 9, 2016 .
  4. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Heinz, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 2017
Place of death Goettingen