Erhard Heinz

Erhard Heinz ( born April 30, 1924 in Bautzen ) is a German mathematician. He works in the field of partial differential equations, in particular the Monge - Ampère equations.

Heinz received his doctorate in 1951 at the Georg- August University in Göttingen with Franz Rellich on contributions to the perturbation theory of the spectral decomposition. Thereafter, he worked as an associate professor and later as a professor at Stanford University, Munich, and from 1966 in Göttingen.

He is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Göttingen.

His doctoral include Hans Wilhelm Alt, Wolf of choice, Willi Jäger, Helmut Werner, Reinhold Friedrich Böhme and Sauvigny.

Work

It dealt mainly with the existence and regularity theory for systems of nonlinear, partial differential equations, with basic and pioneering applications in differential geometry and mathematical physics. He scored decisive results, among other things to the theory of surfaces of prescribed mean curvature, in particular minimal surfaces, the Weyl embedding problem and systems of Monge - Ampère type.

In 1994 he was awarded the Georg Cantor Medal of the DMV.