Citizenship German Role Mathematician Fields Mathematics
Physics Residence Germany | Alma mater Berlin University Children Wilhelm Runge Name Carl Tolme | |
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Born 30 August 1856
Bremen, German Confederation ( 1856-08-30 ) Institutions University of Hanover (1886–1904)
Georg-August University of Gottingen (1904–1925) Doctoral advisor Karl Weierstrass
Ernst Kummer Doctoral students Max Born
Friedrich Adolf Willers
Hermann Konig Died January 3, 1927, Gottingen, Germany Education Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Humboldt University of Berlin Similar People Karl Weierstrass, Heinrich Kayser, Max Born, Ernst Kummer, Joseph Larmor | ||
Parents Julius Runge, Fanny Tolme | ||
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Carl David Tolmé Runge ( [ˈʀʊŋə]; 30 August 1856 – 3 January 1927) was a German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist.
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He was co-developer and co-eponym of the Runge–Kutta method (German pronunciation: [ˈʀʊŋə ˈkʊta]), in the field of what is today known as numerical analysis.
Biography
He spent the first few years of his life in Havana, where his father Julius Runge was the Danish consul. The family later moved to Bremen, where his father died early (in 1864).
In 1880, he received his Ph.D. in mathematics at Berlin, where he studied under Karl Weierstrass. In 1886, he became a professor at the Technische Hochschule Hannover in Hanover, Germany.
His interests included mathematics, spectroscopy, geodesy, and astrophysics. In addition to pure mathematics, he did experimental work studying spectral lines of various elements (together with Heinrich Kayser), and was very interested in the application of this work to astronomical spectroscopy.
In 1904, on the initiative of Felix Klein he received a call to the Georg-August University of Göttingen, which he accepted. There he remained until his retirement in 1925.
Family
His daughter Iris also became a mathematician and his son Wilhelm was an early developer of radar. Another of his daughters, Nerina (Nina), married the mathematician Richard Courant.
Honors
The crater Runge on the Moon is named after him.