Biography:Heinz Bachmann

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Heinz Bachmann
Born1924
Died22 April 2022
OccupationMathematician

Heinz Bachmann (1924 – 22 April 2022)[1] 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.[2]

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  1. ↑ "Zum Hinschied von Dr. Heinz Bachmann (1924 bis 2022)". https://www.datocms-assets.com/132730/1726472970-jahresbericht-2021_22.pdf. 
  2. ↑ Rathjen, Michael; Sieg, Wilfried (2024), Zalta, Edward N.; Nodelman, Uri, eds., "Proof Theory", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2024/entries/proof-theory/, retrieved 2026-08-12