Wilfried Brauer | |
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 Wilfried Brauer and his wife Ute Brauer in 1979, in the Landerzeughaus in Graz | |
| Born | 8 August 1937 Berlin, Prussia |
| Died | 25 February 2014 (aged 76) |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Bonn |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer scientist |
| Institutions | Technical University of Munich |
| Thesis | Zur Theorie der pro-endlichen Gruppen (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]
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:
Below is a selection of books written by Brauer.
