Currency (A Dual City Tale of a Mathematician)

Author: (USA) Richard Courant
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: This book is a biography of the renowned 20th-century mathematician Richard Courant (1888-1972). Born in Germany, Courant possessed extraordinary mathematical talent. In his youth, he studied at G?ttingen, then a global mathematical center, under the guidance of mathematical masters F. Klein and D. Hilbert. While leading the establishment of G?ttingen's Institute for Mathematics, his outstanding organizational skills were fully demonstrated. During the era of rampant racial discrimination in Nazi Germany, as a Jew, Courant was forced to move his family to the United States. Through Courant's relentless efforts and struggles, New York University, which originally had weak mathematical research capabilities, rapidly became a center for applied mathematics in the United States, and a new institute for mathematical research was built in New York. This book vividly recreates Courant's scientific career as a mathematician, educator, and administrator, and authentically records his life journey through two world wars. By reading this book, people can gain insight into the life of this distinguished mathematician behind the mathematical formulas.