Walter Benz
Walter Benz (born May 2, 1931 in Lahnstein ; † January 13, 2017 in Ratzeburg ) was a German mathematician who dealt with geometry.
Life
Benz studied mathematics from 1951 to 1955. In 1956 he received his doctorate at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz under Robert Furch ( axiomatic structure of circular geometry based on double ratios ), and in 1959 he completed his habilitation there. From 1961 to 1966 he taught at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , from 1966 he was professor at the Ruhr University Bochum , the University of Waterloo and from 1974 at the University of Hamburg as the successor to Emanuel Sperner .
According to him, Benz-levels designated to axiomatizing a common concept of flat Möbius, Laguerre / lie and Minkowski geometries.
He published the collected works of Sperner and those of Wilhelm Blaschke (as head of the Wilhelm Blaschke Memorial Foundation founded by Sperner). Benz was the editor of the annual report of the German Mathematicians Association for a long time .
Honors
- Honorary doctorate Dr. hc
- Honorary membership of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Fonts
- Classical geometries in modern contexts - geometries of real inner product spaces , Birkhäuser 2005
- Level Geometry - Introduction to Theory and Application , Spectrum, University Pocket Book 1997
- Real geometries , BI Wissenschaftsverlag 1994
- Geometric transformations with special consideration of the Lorentz transformations , BI Wissenschaftsverlag 1992
- Lectures on the geometry of algebras - geometries by Möbius, Laguerre-Lie, Minkowski in uniform and basic geometric treatment , Springer, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, Volume 197, 1973
- About Möbiusebenen , Annual Report DMV, Volume 63, 1960, pp. 1–27
- Mathematics was my life, is my life , Journal of Geometry, Volume 93, pp. 83–115 (Oral History Project of the University of Hamburg, Uta Hartmann)
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Benz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage in Hamburg
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Benz obituary notice , FAZ , January 21, 2017
- ↑ Walter Benz in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ Springer Encyclopedia of Mathematics: Benz Planes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benz, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lahnstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 2017 |
| Place of death | Ratzeburg |