Walter Benz
German mathematician (1931–2017); Dr. rer. nat. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 1956 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Walter Benz (May 2, 1931 – January 13, 2017) was a German mathematician, an expert in geometry.[1] Benz was born in Mainz, Germany. He studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.
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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 was professor emeritus. Benz was honoured with the degree of a Dr. h.c.
Inner product spaces over the real numbers were the basis of a 2007 book by Benz: Classical Geometries in Modern Contexts.[2]
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