Wilfried Brauer (8 August 1937 – 25 February 2014) was a German

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and

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Life and work

Brauer studied Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. He received a PhD in Mathematics 1966 from the

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for a dissertation on the theory of

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s. Wilfried Brauer and his wife Ute were two of the 19 founding members of the

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. From 1998 to 2001, he was chairman of the German Informatics Society. From 1994 to 1999, he was vice president of the

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. He received several awards and honours: * Felix Hausdorff-Gedächtnispreis (1966) * IFIP Silver Core (1986) * honorary doctor of the

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(1996) * Werner Heisenberg Medal (2000) * IFIP Isaac L. Auerbach Award (2002) * honorary doctor of the

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(2004) * One of ten inaugural fellows of the

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(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:

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) * with Klaus Indermark: Algorithmen, Rekursive Funktionen und Formale Sprachen (in German), 1968. * Automatentheorie (in German), Teubner 1984. * with

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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.

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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

References

External links

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