Richard Courant: Methods of Mathematical Physics, Volume 1, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Biografie (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.

Biografie (David Hilbert)

David Hilbert (1862-1943) gilt als der vielleicht universellste Mathematiker des ausgehenden 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts. Er hat auf zahlreichen Gebieten der Mathematik und der mathematischen Physik grundlegende neue Resultate vorgelegt und wesentliche Entwicklungen angebahnt.