K. S. Amur
Born	1931, India
Citizenship	Indian
Fields	Differential Geometry
Institutions	Karnataka University, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Alma mater	Karnataka University
Doctoral advisor	C. N. S. Iyengar

Krishna Shyamacharya Amur (born 1931) a professor emeritus of mathematics in Differential geometry ^[1][2] was head of the department of mathematics, Karnatak University, Dharwar.

Amur is the founder member of the Aurobindo society in Dharwar (1992) and the Vice-president of Karnatak education board, Dharwar ^[3]. Amur is the younger brother of G. S. Amur a leading contemporary writer and critic in Kannada and English.

Contents 1 Career 2 Selected publications 3 Ph.D. students 4 References

[edit] Career

Born and raised in Suranagi village of Haveri taluka, he earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. (1964) in mathematics from the Karnataka University, Dharwar. From 1960 to 1962, he was a lecturer of mathematics at the Karnatak College, Dharwar and then professor of mathematics at the department of mathematics Karnatak University, Dharwar. Amur was a postdoctoral fellow at the department of mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from 1967 to 1968 and again in 1984, he came to US on a fellowship program for a year.^[4]. He was also acting Registrar of the Karnatak University, Dharwar from 1978-80.

Amur has been working as the President of Sri Aurobindo society, ^[5] Karnataka state. Amur is married to Radha Amur from Dharwar; she is actively engaged with the Karnataka Education society and Sri Aurobindo chapter of the Karnataka state.

[edit] Selected publications

• Conformality of Reimannian manifolds to spheres (in collaboration with V.S. Hegde), J. Differential Geometry, Vol 9, 1974, pp 571–576
• On a characterization of the 2-sphere, American Mathematical Monthly, Vol 78, 1971, pp. 382–383
• Conformality and Isometry of Reimannian manifolds to spheres (in collaboration with S. S. Pujar), J. Differential Geometry, Vol 13, 1978, pp 243–250
• On foliated and parametric minimal hypersurface in Euclidian space (in collaboration with R. S. Venkataraman), Journal of Ramanujan Math. Soc., Vol 5, 1991, pp 9–27
• A new analytical method to calculate instinsic viscosity and viscosity constants of polymer-solvent systems (in collaboration with Uday S. Doti et al.), Journal of Applied Polymer Sciences, Vol 83, 2002, p 283-290 ^[6]

[edit] Ph.D. students

• C. Bagewadi, 1978
• K. S. Chandra Shekhar
• Y. Maralabhavi
• S. S. Pujar
• D. J. Shetty

[edit] References

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