Hanno Rund

Summary

Hanno Rund (26 October 1925 in Schwerin – 5 January 1993 in Tucson, Arizona) was a German mathematician.[1] He wrote numerous publications, including perhaps his most famous, The Hamilton-Jacobi theory in the calculus of variations. Its role in mathematics and physics.

Hanno Rund
Born(1925-10-26)26 October 1925
Died5 January 1993(1993-01-05) (aged 67)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Cape Town
Known forDifferential Geometry
Calculus of variations
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorChristian Yvon Pauc
Doctoral studentsDavid Lovelock

Rund received his Ph.D in 1950 from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. In 1952, he obtained his Habilitation at the University of Freiburg in Germany. His notable students include David Lovelock and Martin Sade.

A new permanent head for the Mathematics Department was found in 1970. Dr. Hanno Rund came from Waterloo University to the University of Arizona to take the leadership of the Department during the period between 1970 and 1978. He energetically pursued the development program that had been initiated by Cohn, adding more than a dozen new faculty members.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Clay, Jim (August 1993). "Hanno Rund". Results in Mathematics. 24 (1): 3–11. doi:10.1007/BF03322313. S2CID 189878660.
  2. ^ Pierce, Richard S. (1984). "Department History, Department of Mathematics, U. of Arizona".

Books edit

  • H. Rund, The Hamilton-Jacobi theory in the calculus of variations. Its role in mathematics and physics, D. Van Nostrand Company Ltd., 1966.
  • H. Rund, The Differential Geometry of Finsler Spaces, Springer, Berlin, 1959.
  • Lovelock, David; Rund, Hanno (1989), Tensors, Differential Forms, and Variational Principles, Dover, ISBN 978-0-486-65840-7

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