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Richard Courant
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- Born
- 8 January 1888
- Died
- 27 January 1972
- Works
- 98
Top works
- Linear operators and their spectra with applications to quantum mechanics
- Methods of mathematical physics
- Lectures on the theoryof functions
- Introduction to mathematical analysis
- Wave propagation
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Recent publications · Crossref
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Quotes
- “For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?”
- “It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.”
- “Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.”
- “Empirical evidence can never establish mathematical existence--nor can the mathematician's demand for existence be dismissed by the physicist as useless rigor. Only a mathematical existence proof can ensure that the mathematical description of a physical phenomenon is meaningful.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Lubliniec
- Place of death
- New Rochelle
- Child
- Ernest Courant
- Occupation
- physicist
- Educated at
- University of Wrocław
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Political party
- Social Democratic Party of Germany
- Languages spoken
- German
- Notable work
- What Is Mathematics?
- Doctoral advisor
- David Hilbert
- Doctoral student
- Mary Taylor Slow
- Field of work
- partial differential equation
- Conflict
- World War I
- Image
- Richard Courant.jpg
- Number of children
- 4
- Work location
- New York City
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- Commons category
- Richard Courant
- date of birth
- 1888-01-08
- date of death
- 1972-01-27
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- Erdős number
- 3
- name in native language
- Richard Courant
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- P8168
- Merlin
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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