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| name = K. S. Amur
| birth_date =
| birth_place = 1931, India
| death_date = 09/08/2018
| death_place = Dharwad, India
|residence = [[Dharwar]]
|citizenship = {{flagicon|India}} [[India]]n
|ethnicity =
| occupation = Professor of Mathematics
| salary =
| spouse =
| field = [[Differential Geometry]]
| work_institution = [[Karnataka University]], <br/> [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]
| alma_mater= [[Karnataka University]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[C. N. S. Iyengar]]
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'''Krishna Shyamacharya Amur''' (born 1931) a professor emeritus of mathematics in [[differential geometry]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.amurs.org/ksamur_pubs |title=- Amur's publications |access-date=11 April 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120717083036/http://www.amurs.org/ksamur_pubs |archive-date=17 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=107986 - Mathematics Genealogy Project]</ref> was head of the department of mathematics, [[Karnatak University]], Dharwar.<ref>[http://www.kud.ernet.in/PG_Deparments/Science_Departments/Mathamatics/maths.htm Karnataka University] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613160628/http://www.kud.ernet.in/PG_Deparments/Science_Departments/Mathamatics/maths.htm |date=2008-06-13}}</ref>
Amur is the founder member of the [[Sri Aurobindo]] Society in Dharwar (1992) of Karnataka State and the vice-president of Karnatak Education Board, Dharwar.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://keboarddharwad.com/index_files/Page400.htm |title=- KE Board, Dharwar |access-date=11 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713141649/http://keboarddharwad.com/index_files/Page400.htm |archive-date=13 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Amur is the younger brother of [[G. S. Amur]] a leading contemporary writer and critic in Kannada and English.

Born and raised in Suranagi village of [[Haveri]] taluka, he earned a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. (1964) in mathematics from the Karnataka University, Dharwar. From 1960 to 1962, he was a lecturer of mathematics at [[Karnataka College]], Dharwar and then a 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 at Chapel Hill]], from 1967 to 1968 and again in 1984, he went to the USA on a fellowship program for a year.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.amurs.org/kn_ksamur |title=- Visit to US, a record in Kannada language |access-date=27 April 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120719032032/http://www.amurs.org/kn_ksamur |archive-date=19 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He was also acting registrar of the Karnatak University, Dharwar from 1978-80.

Amur has been working as the president of Sri Aurobindo society,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.amurs.org/kn_ksamur |title=- President of Sri Aurobindo, Karnataka state |access-date=27 April 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120719032032/http://www.amurs.org/kn_ksamur |archive-date=19 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Karnataka State.

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