Heinz Langer (mathematician)

Heinz Langer (born August 8, 1935 in Dresden ) is a German - Austrian mathematician .

Heinz Langer, 2016

Life

Heinz Langer was born in Dresden- Laubegast and has lived in Radebeul since 1971 . He attended the Oberschule Dresden-Ost from 1949 to 1953 and received the Lessing Medal because of his achievements . He then studied mathematics at the Technical University of Dresden , where he received his doctorate under Paul Heinz Müller in 1960 and completed his habilitation in 1965 . In 1966 he was appointed professor at the TU Dresden and became head of the research area of ​​probability theory and mathematical statistics - the forerunner of today's Institute for Mathematical Stochastics . 1961/1962 he spent a stay abroad in Odessa , where he met Mark Grigoryevich Kerin , who had an important influence on his further career. 1966/1967 followed a stay abroad in Toronto . From 1970 to 1989 he gave guest lectures in Jyväskylä , Stockholm , Uppsala , Linköping , Antwerp , Groningen , Amsterdam and Regensburg . In October 1989 he left the GDR and went to Regensburg. He received a professorship in Dortmund for one year and then in Regensburg until he accepted the chair for application-oriented analysis at the Vienna University of Technology in 1991, where he remained until his retirement .

His lifelong research focuses on stochastics and eigenvalue problems / operator theory . The latter is of great interest to science and economics, examples being geodynamo and photonic crystals .

He is the author of over 200 papers and has made important contributions to operator theory. He is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

• with IS Iohvidov, MG Krein: Introduction to the spectral theory of operators in spaces with an indefinite metric. Mathematical Research, 9th Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1982.

Awards

• 1953 Lessing Medal of the GDR
• 1986 National Prize of the GDR III. Science and technology class
• 2009 Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy Medal of the Bólyai Institute of the University of Science in Szeged
• 2011 Mark Grigoryevich Kerin Prize in Mathematics from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• 2015 honorary doctorate from Stockholm University
• 2016 honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International honor for Prof. Heinz Langer. Retrieved January 24, 2016 .  
2. ↑ Honorary doctoral students of the TH / TU Dresden. Retrieved January 25, 2016 .  
3. ^ Honorary doctorate from TU Dresden for the mathematician Heinz Langer. Retrieved January 26, 2016 .  

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Langer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Heinz Langer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
• Aad Dijksma, Israel Gohberg : Heinz Langer and his Work, In: Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. No. 106, 1998, pp. 1–5 ( doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-7643-8734-1_20 )