Wilfried Nöbauer

Wilfried Nöbauer, born on 21 June 1928 in Ungenach and died on 12 February 1988 in Vienna, was an Austrian mathematician. He studied mathematics at the University of Vienna and took his doctorate there in 1950 under Edmund Hlawka with a dissertation on a theorem of Eckmann. In 1956 he received the newly created Förderungspreis of the Austrian Mathematical Society, and in 1962 he completed his habilitation with a work on groups of residue classes modulo residual polynomial ideals in several indeterminates. He became a professor at the University of Vienna in 1964 and moved in 1966 to the Technische Hochschule in Vienna, where he was rector from 1979 to 1983. His books include Algebra of Polynomials, written with Hans Lausch, mathematical models in biology with Werner Timischl, and a history of mathematics for school teaching with Hans Kaiser. His doctoral students include Martin Aigner, Christiane Floyd, Rudolf Lidl and Günter Pilz.