Runge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Aino Runge (1926–2014), Estonian financial economist, consumer defender and politician
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August H. Runge (1852–1921), American Fire Marshal
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Brian Runge
Brian Edward Runge (born January 5, 1970) is a former umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the National League in 1999 and throughout both major leagues from 2000 to 2012; he wore uniform number 18.
Umpiring career
Runge worked three Di ...
(born 1970), American baseball umpire
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Carl Runge (1856–1927), German physicist and mathematician
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Runge–Kutta methods
In numerical analysis, the Runge–Kutta methods ( ) are a family of implicit and explicit iterative methods, which include the Euler method, used in temporal discretization for the approximate solutions of simultaneous nonlinear equations. The ...
for numerical analysis
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Runge's phenomenon, a problem in the field of numerical analysis
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Runge's theorem
In complex analysis, Runge's theorem (also known as Runge's approximation theorem) is named after the German mathematician Carl Runge who first proved it in the year 1885. It states the following:
Denoting by C the set of complex numbers, let ''K ...
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Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector
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Carlisle Runge (1920–1983), American lawyer and diplomat
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Cierra Runge (born 1996), American swimmer
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Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795–1867), German chemist
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Iris Runge
Iris Anna Runge (1 June 1888 – 27 January 1966) was a German applied mathematician and physicist.
Life and work
Iris Runge was the eldest of six children of mathematician Carl Runge. She started studying physics, mathematics, and geography ...
(1888-1966), German applied mathematician and physicist
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Kurt Runge
Kurt Albert Georg Runge (13 September 1887 – 6 November 1959) was a German rower who competed for the German Empire in the 1912 Summer Olympics, as the coxswain. The German team won the bronze medal in the eight.
1912 German Men's eig ...
(1887–1959), German rower
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Mary Munson Runge Mary Munson Runge (1928 – January 8, 2014) was the first female, the first African American, and the first employee community pharmacist to be elected president of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA).
Early life and family
Runge was born ...
(1928–2014), American pharmacist
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Norah Cecil Runge
Norah Cecil Runge, OBE (1884 – 6 June 1978) was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom.
Career
Runge was elected Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe in the 1931 Conservative landslide, gaining the seat from Labour incumbent Be ...
(1884–1978), British politician
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Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810), German painter
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Wilhelm Runge
Wilhelm Tolmé Runge (June 10, 1895 – June 9, 1987) was an electrical engineer and physicist who had a major involvement in developing radar systems in Germany.
Early life
Wilhelm Runge was born and raised in Hanover, where his father, Carl Ru ...
(1895-1987), German electrical engineer and physicist
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German-language surnames