Walter Benz
Mathematician, Author
1931 –
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Who is Walter Benz?
Walter Benz is a German mathematician, an expert in geometry.
Benz studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and received his doctoral degree in 1954, with Robert Furch as his advisor. After a position at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, he served as a professor at the Universities of Bochum, Waterloo and Hamburg where he is now professor emeritus. Benz was honoured with the degree of a Dr. h.c.
Based on his book Vorlesungen über Geometrie der Algebren, certain geometric objects are called Benz planes.
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