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Richard Courant

Affiliations: 
New York University, New York, NY, United States 
Area:
mathematics
Website:
http://cims.nyu.edu/courant_bio.html
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(1888 - 1972)
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/20000990.html
https://www.nap.edu/read/10683/chapter/6
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Courant.html
https://history.aip.org/phn/11501016.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=cU7vAAAAMAAJ
https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=7378

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Parents

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Jacob Rosanes grad student 1906-1907 University of Breslau
 (https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Courant/)
David Hilbert grad student 1910 Universität Göttingen
 (Über die Anwendung des dirichletschen Prinzipes auf die Probleme der konformen Abbildung)
Hermann Minkowski grad student 1907-1912 Universität Göttingen
 (https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Courant/)

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Pascual Jordan research assistant 1923-1926 Universität Göttingen (Physics Tree)
Henry J. Kelley grad student NYU (E-Tree)
Hans Lipps grad student (Philosophy Tree)
Kurt Otto Friedrichs grad student 1925 Universität Göttingen
Hans Lewy grad student 1925 Universität Göttingen
William Feller grad student 1926 Universität Göttingen
Otto Eduard Neugebauer grad student 1926 Universität Göttingen
Franz Rellich grad student 1929 Universität Göttingen
Charles Raymond DePrima grad student 1943 NYU
Harold Grad grad student 1948 NYU
Joseph Bishop Keller grad student 1948 NYU
Martin David Kruskal grad student 1952 NYU (Physics Tree)
Donald A. Ludwig grad student 1958 NYU (Marine Ecology Tree)
Rolf Herman Nevanlinna post-doc 1924- Universität Göttingen

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Courant R, Hilbert D. (2008) Methods of Mathematical Physics Methods of Mathematical Physics. 2: 1-830
Alexanderson GL, Courant R, Robbins H. (1979) What Is Mathematics? The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal. 10: 40
Bergmann PG, Courant R, Hilbert D. (1964) Methods of Mathematical Physics, Vol. II: Partial Differential Equations. American Mathematical Monthly. 71: 338
Courant R. (1964) Mathematics in the Modern World Scientific American. 211: 40-49
Broadbent TAA, Courant R. (1963) Methods of Mathematical Physics. II. Partial Differential Equations The Mathematical Gazette. 47: 258
Courant R, Hilbert D, Harris JD. (1963) Methods of Mathematical Physics, Volume II: Partial Differential Equations American Journal of Physics. 31: 221
Courant R, Lax PD. (1956) THE PROPAGATION OF DISCONTINUITIES IN WAVE MOTION. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 42: 872-6
B. TAA, Courant R, Hilbert D. (1955) Methods of Mathematical Physics. I The Mathematical Gazette. 39: 175
Courant R, Lax P. (1955) Cauchy's problem for non-linear hyperbolic differential equations in two independent variables Annali Di Matematica Pura Ed Applicata, Series 4. 40: 161-166
Courant R, Hilbert D. (1954) Methods of Mathematical Physics, Vol. I Physics Today. 7: 17-17
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