Friedrich L. Bauer

Friedrich Ludwig Bauer ( born June 10, 1924 in Regensburg ) is a German pioneer of computer science. He constructed in the 1950s, several encryption machine, invented in 1957, the principle of basement storage, held in 1967 at the Technical University of Munich, the first official computer science lectures in Germany and established in 1988 the first computer exhibition in the Deutsches Museum from. His publications on cryptology are standard works of computer science.

Education and Teaching

He is the son of Books auditor Ludwig Bauer. Friedrich Ludwig Bauer grew up in Thal village and put his Abitur in 1942 at the Ludwig - Oberrealschule Munich (now Erasmus Grasser -Gymnasium ) from. 1943 drew him the Wehrmacht in the Second World War; Bauer was until the war ended in 1945 soldier. In 1946 he took a degree in mathematics, physics, logic and astronomy at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University Munich ( LMU), which he completed in 1950.

He worked for six months as Studienassessor at the Gisela Upper Secondary School in Munich, then as an assistant to Fritz Bopp at LMU, where he received his doctorate in 1952. Two years later he qualified as a professor at Robert Sauer.

1958-1962 taught peasant as professor of applied mathematics at the University of Mainz. In 1963 he accepted an appointment as professor of mathematics at the Technical University of Munich. He called the 1967 study of computer science to life and held the first computer science course in Germany.

From 1984 to 1995 he was Director of the holiday Academy, University of Erlangen and the Technical University of Munich. From 1970 to 1995 he was Director of the International Summer School Marktoberdorf. Since 1989 he is professor emeritus.

Person

Farmers more interested in the music and played the piano. He lives in Kottgeisering near Munich. He is married and father of three sons and two daughters.

Work

Bauer conducted research in the areas of algebra, numerical analysis, programming languages ​​and methods, software engineering, and mathematical logic. He is also the author of one of the fundamental works on the subject of cryptology. Today, it still employs essentially the history of computer science.

In numerical mathematics he developed iteration method for eigenvalue problems and the factorization of polynomials.

From 1951 to 1975 he had a consulting agreement with Siemens AG, 1950-51, he developed the completed in 1956 logical machine Stanislaus, 1953, he filed a patent for error-detecting and correcting codes, and in 1957, together with Klaus Samelson a patent on the principle of the stack memory (Keller principle), for which he was the IEEE 1988 computer Pioneer Award bestowed.

Since 1956, he participated in the international cooperation which 60 led to the creation of the programming languages ​​Algol 58 and Algol.

He was involved in the recognition of computer science as a full academic field of study. 1967 saw the first special lectures in computer science at the Technical University of Munich, where in 1972 the independent study program in computer science at the Technical University of Munich, was established.

Bauer was instrumental in the creation of several exhibitions at the Deutsches Museum: for computer science and automatic (1988 ), for Microelectronics (1990) and the Mathematical Cabinet (1999).

He is also known for his research on the topic of cryptology and gave the first lecture on this topic at a Department of computer science, which he - as he says in one of his books - even in a lecture visit from Pullach brought, by which he meant the Federal Intelligence Service. To cryptology, he has published numerous books.

Honors

According to him, the Friedrich L. Bauer Prize for computer science of the Technical University of Munich is named, which is awarded since 1992.

Honorary doctorates

Writings

• Andrei and the beast. 6 lessons in computer science. Bavarian school textbook publishing house, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7627-3047-4.
• With H. Woessner: Algorithmic Language and Program Development. Springer, Berlin et al 1982, ISBN 3-540-11148-4.
• As editor: Logic, Algebra, and Computation. Springer, Berlin et al 1991, ISBN 3-540-54315-5.
• With Gerhard Goos: computer science 1st 4th edition. Springer, Berlin et al 1991, ISBN 3-540-52790-7.
• With Gerhard Goos: computer science 2nd 4th edition. Springer, Berlin et al 1992, ISBN 3-540-55567-6.
• Cryptology. Springer, Berlin et al 1994, ISBN 3-540-57771-8, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-78869-7.
• Decrypted Secrets. Methods and Maxims of Cryptology. 3rd edition. Springer, Berlin et al 2000, ISBN 3-540-67931-6, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-58345-2.
• Decrypted Secrets. Methods and Maxims of Cryptology. 3rd edition. Springer, Berlin et al 2002, ISBN 3-540-42674-4, doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-04736-1.
• Historical notes on computer science. 1st edition. Springer, Berlin et al 2009, ISBN 3-540-85789-3, doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-85790-7