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Heinz Bachmann

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Heinz Bachmann (born 1924) is a mathematician who worked at the Eidgenössische Sternwarte (federal observatory) in Zurich. He introduced the Bachmann-Howard ordinal and ordinal collapsing functions.

References

  • Bachmann, Heinz (1950), "Die Normalfunktionen und das Problem der ausgezeichneten Folgen von Ordnungszahlen", Vierteljschr. Naturforsch. Ges. Zürich, 95: 115–147, MR 0036806
  • Bachmann, Heinz (1955), Transfinite Zahlen, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete (N.F.), Heft 1., Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Göttingen-Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3642885150, MR 0071481