| Heinz Bauer | |
| Birth Date: | 31 January 1928 |
| Birth Place: | Nuremberg, Germany |
| Death Place: | Erlangen, Germany |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| Alma Mater: | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| Academic Advisors: | Otto Haupt |
| Doctoral Students: | Karl-Theodor Sturm |
| Awards: | Bavarian Order of Merit Fellow of the Leopoldina Chauvenet Prize (1980) |
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[1] and became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1986. Bauer died in Erlangen.