1. Richard Courant was a German-American mathematician.
18 Facts About Richard Courant
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Richard Courant's research focused on the areas of real analysis, mathematical physics, the calculus of variations and partial differential equations.
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Richard Courant wrote textbooks widely used by generations of students of physics and mathematics.
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Richard Courant is known for founding the institute now bearing his name.
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Richard Courant's parents were Siegmund Courant and Martha Freund of Oels.
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Richard Courant stayed in Breslau and entered the university there, then continued his studies at the University of Zurich and the University of Gottingen.
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Richard Courant became David Hilbert's assistant in Gottingen and obtained his doctorate there in 1910.
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Richard Courant was obliged to serve in World War I, but was wounded shortly after enlisting and therefore dismissed from the military.
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Richard Courant left the University of Munster in 1921 to take over Erich Heckes position at the University of Gottingen.
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Richard Courant left Germany in 1933, earlier than many Jewish escapees.
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Richard Courant did not lose his position due to being Jewish, as his previous service as a front-line soldier exempted him; however, his public membership in the social-democratic left was reason enough for dismissal.
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In 1936, after one year at Cambridge, Richard Courant accepted a professorship at New York University in New York City.
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Richard Courant's name is attached to the finite element method, with his numerical treatment of the plain torsion problem for multiply-connected domains, published in 1943.
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Richard Courant was an elected member of both the American Philosophical Society and the United States National Academy of Sciences.
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Richard Courant died of a stroke in New Rochelle, New York on January 27,1972, aged 84.
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In 1912, Richard Courant married Nelly Neumann, who had earned her doctorate at Breslau in synthetic geometry in 1909.
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Richard Courant was later murdered by the Nazis in 1942 for being Jewish.
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In 1919, Richard Courant married Nerina Runge, a daughter of the Gottingen professor for Applied Mathematics, Carl Runge.