About Heinz Bachmann
Born 1924. Heinz Bachmann is a Swiss mathematician.
Heinz Bachmann (1924 – 22 April 2022) was a mathematician who worked at the Eidgenössische Sternwarte (federal observatory) in Zürich. He introduced the Bachmann–Howard ordinal and ordinal collapsing functions, which are essential tools in studying proof-theoretic ordinals.
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Swiss mathematician
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Heinz Bachmann was born in 1924 in Zurich.
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Heinz Bachmann is a mathematician.
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Heinz Bachmann is Swiss.
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