Richard Courant

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gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:Mathematician
gptkbp:alma_mater gptkb:University_of_Göttingen
gptkbp:awards gptkb:National_Medal_of_Science
gptkbp:birth_date 1888-01-08
gptkbp:children gptkb:3
gptkbp:contribution Mathematical analysis
Mathematical modeling
Applied mathematics
Computational mathematics
gptkbp:death_date 1972-01-27
gptkbp:field gptkb:Mathematics
gptkbp:founder gptkb:Courant_Institute_of_Mathematical_Sciences
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Richard Courant
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:David_Hilbert
gptkbp:known_for Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy condition
gptkbp:legacy Influence on modern mathematics education
Promotion of applied mathematics
Development of mathematical methods
Establishment of mathematical institutes
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:German
gptkbp:notable_students gptkb:Hermann_Weyl
gptkb:László_Lovász
gptkb:Lothar_Collatz
gptkb:Rudolf_Lipschitz
gptkb:Robert_L._Smith
gptkb:George_Pólya
gptkb:Marcel_Riesz
gptkb:Andrey_Kolmogorov
gptkb:David_Hilbert
gptkb:John_Nash
gptkb:Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkb:Paul_Halmos
gptkb:Felix_Klein
gptkb:Erich_Hecke
gptkb:Richard_Bellman
gptkb:Hans_Rademacher
gptkb:Hans_Zassenhaus
gptkb:Emil_Artin
gptkb:Hermann_Minkowski
gptkb:Alfred_Tarski
Kurt Friedrichs
gptkbp:research gptkb:Fluid_dynamics
Mathematical physics
Numerical analysis
Calculus of variations
Mathematical education
gptkbp:research_institutes gptkb:New_York_University
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Ruth_Courant
gptkbp:work Partial Differential Equations
Mathematics and the Imagination
Methods of Mathematical Physics
Differential and Integral Calculus
Introduction to Calculus and Analysis
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:John_von_Neumann
gptkbp:bfsLayer 3