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Name
  
Hanno Rund

Role
  
Mathematician


Died
  
1993

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Books
  
Tensors, Differential Forms, and Variational Principles

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

Rund received his PhD in 1950 from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. 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.

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