Wilfried Brauer Explained

Wilfried Brauer
Birth Date:	8 August 1937
Birth Place:	Berlin, Prussia
Death Place:	Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia
Nationality:	German
Fields:	Computer scientist
Workplaces:	Technical University of Munich
Alma Mater:	University of Bonn
Thesis Title:	Zur Theorie der pro-endlichen Gruppen
Thesis Url:	https://bonnus.ulb.uni-bonn.de/SummonRecord/FETCH-bonn_catalog_5867302
Thesis Year:	1966
Doctoral Advisor:	Wolfgang Krull
Doctoral Students:	Sepp Hochreiter

Wilfried Brauer (8 August 1937 – 25 February 2014^[1]) was a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at Technical University of Munich.^[2]

Life and work

Brauer studied Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. He received a PhD in Mathematics 1966 from the University of Bonn for a dissertation on the theory of profinite groups.

Wilfried Brauer and his wife Ute were two of the 19 founding members of the German Informatics Society.^[3] From 1998 to 2001, he was chairman of the German Informatics Society. From 1994 to 1999, he was vice president of the International Federation of Information Processing.^[4]

He received several awards and honours:

• Felix Hausdorff-Gedächtnispreis (1966)^[5]
• IFIP Silver Core (1986)
• honorary doctor of the University of Hamburg (1996)^[6]
• Werner Heisenberg Medal (2000)^[5]
• IFIP Isaac L. Auerbach Award (2002)^[7]
• honorary doctor of the Freie Universität Berlin (2004)^[8]
• One of ten inaugural fellows of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (2014, posthumous).

Publications

Below is a selection of books written by Brauer.

• Über das Turingsche Modell einer Rechenmaschine und den Begriff des Algorithmus, Diploma Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, 1962
• Zur Theorie der pro-endlichen Gruppen. Doctorate Thesis, Universität Bonn, 1968 (Advisor: Wolfgang Krull)
• with Klaus Indermark: Algorithmen, Rekursive Funktionen und Formale Sprachen (in German), 1968.
• Automatentheorie (in German), Teubner 1984.
• with Friedrich L. Bauer and H. Schwichtenberg: Logic and Algebra of Specifications, 1993

Editorship

• Wilfried Brauer (ed.): Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 3. Jahrestagung, Hamburg, 8.-10. Oktober 1973. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 1, Springer 1973
• Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series. Series Editors: Brauer, W., Hromkovič, J., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., publisher's page.

External links

• Web site: Wilfried Brauer Bibliography . . May 9, 2009.
• Wilfried Brauer at the mathematics genealogy project

Notes and References

1. Web site: GI honorary member Wilfried Brauer passed away (in German). 4 March 2014 . Gesellschaft für Informatik . 6 March 2014.
2. Christian Freksa, Matthias Jantzen, Rüdiger Valk (Eds.): Foundations of Computer Science: Potential - Theory - Cognition, to Wilfried Brauer on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1337 Springer 1997,
3. Fritz Krückeberg: Die Geschichte der GI, S. 14; 2. Auflage, November 2001, Gesellschaft für Informatik. https://gi.de/fileadmin/GI/Hauptseite/Themen/geschichte-der-gi.pdf, retrieved on February 9th, 2021
4. News: IFIP Newsletter. March 1999.
5. News: Ehrendoktorwürde für Prof. Wilfried Brauer (in German). www.uni-protokolle.de.
6. http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/Info/ueber_uns/ehrungen_brauer.shtml Granting of honorary doctorate for Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Wilfried Brauer (in German)
7. News: IFIP Newsletter. September 2002.
8. http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/deprecated/ehrendoktor/brauer/ FU-Berlin: Institut für Informatik: Wilfried Brauer