Biography richard courant

Professor Richard Courant (1888 – 1972)

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Field: Mathematics

Institutions:
University bring in Göttingen
University criticize Münster
University presumption Cambridge
New Royalty University

Alma mater: University refreshing Göttingen
Doctoral advisor: David Hilbert

Known for:
Courant number
Courant minimax principle
Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy condition

Biography:
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Richard Courant

German-American mathematician (1888–1972)

Richard Courant (January 8, 1888 – January 27, 1972) was a German-American mathematician. He is best known by the general public for the book What is Mathematics?, co-written with Herbert Robbins. His research focused on the areas of real analysis, mathematical physics, the calculus of variations and partial differential equations. He wrote textbooks widely used by generations of students of physics and mathematics. He is also known for founding the institute now bearing his name.

Life and career

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Courant was born in Lublinitz, in the PrussianProvince of Silesia (now in Poland). His parents were Siegmund Courant and Martha Freund of Oels. Edith Stein was Richard's cousin on the maternal side. During his youth his parents moved often, including to Glatz, then to Breslau and in 1905 to Berlin. He stayed in Breslau and entered the university there, then continued his studies at the University of Zürich and the University of Göttingen. He became David Hilbert's assistant in Göttingen and obtained his doctorate there in 1910. He was obliged to serve in World War I, but was wounded shortly after enlisting and therefore dismissed from the military. Courant left the University of Münster in 1921 to take over E

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Anyone who knew Courant, however, also knew that he was an irrepressible optimist. Just a few weeks after his arrival, he met a friend from Germany who was familiar with the mathematician’s love of music (Courant had taught himself how to play the piano at the age of 14) and asked him whether he would be playing quartets again in his new home. Courant reportedly replied, “In this country not quartets. In this country, octets!” He had quickly absorbed the atmosphere of opportunity and gathered that it would be possible for him to accomplish much in this city.

He was right. Halfway through his two-year term, in 1935, Courant was asked to stay on at NYU and transform its nearly nonexistent math program—there was just one full-time faculty member at the time—into “a strong graduate department.” Eleven years later, having brought in research dollars by the bundle and assembled a world-class faculty, he became director of the university’s new Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics. Within a few decades U.S. News & World Report would rate it the best graduate department in the country in the field of applied mathematics, and it would become renowned worldwide for outstanding research in partial differential equations, probabilit