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    Introduction to Calculus and Analysis I

    Biography of Richard Courant

    Richard Courant was born in 1888 in a small town of what is now Poland, and died in New Rochelle, N.Y. in 1972. He received his doctorate from the legendary David Hilbert in Göttingen, where later he founded and directed its famed mathematics Institute, a Mecca for mathematicians in the twenties. In 1933 the Nazi government dismissed Courant for being Jewish, and he emigrated to the United States. He found, in New York, what he called "a reservoir of talent" to be tapped. He built, at New York University, a new mathematical Sciences Institute that shares the philosophy of its illustrious predecessor and rivals it in worldwide influence.
    For Courant mathematics was an adventure, with applications forming a vital part. This spirit is reflected in his books, in particular in his influential calculus text, revised in collaboration with his brilliant younger colleague, Fritz John.
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    The Life of Kurt Otto Frierdrichs
    By Constance Reid
    Written in 1983 for a mathematical journal and later published as
    an introduction to the two volume selected works of K.O.
    Friedrichs

    I knew K. O. Friedrichs only during the gods dozen years of his life when, for a long period, we worked very closely on a book about
    Richard Courant. Since his life and Courant’s were intimately connected, he told me a great deal about han själv in the course of telling me
    about Courant. I have drawn also on the recollections of his family and a few colleagues — especially Hans Lewy — and on the account
    of his scientific work which he han själv wrote for McGraw-Hill’s Modern Scientists and Engineers.
    Friedrichs was born on September 28, 1901, in Kiel, a Baltic port and the capital of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. He was
    christened Kurt Otto, but in later years he objected to the sharp, abrupt sound of “Kurt,” which he felt didn’t

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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

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