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Courant Details
Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 510.92
EAN: 9780387946702
ISBN: 0387946705
Label: Springer
Manufacturer: Springer
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 318
Publication Date: 1996-04-19
Publisher: Springer
Studio: Springer
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Summary: A Builder of Centers of Excellence in Mathematics
Comment: This is a book that would interest people who enjoy reading books about the history of mathematics, particularly about the communities and and institutions of mathematics. The period covered is from the late 19th Century. Courant was student and later, a colleague of the famous mathematician Hilbert at Gottingen. Courant is obviously not as famous as Hilbert and the book does not focus on his achievements in mathematics. Instead, it discusses more about how he relates to other mathematicians, and his tireless efforts in trying to establish and nurture two centers of excellence in mathematics - the Mathematical Institute at Gottingen and the Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Builder of Centers of Excellence in Mathematics
Comment: This is a book that would interest people who enjoy reading books about the history of mathematics, particularly about the communities and and institutions of mathematics. The period covered is from the late 19th Century. Courant was student and later, a colleague of the famous mathematician Hilbert at Gottingen. Courant is obviously not as famous as Hilbert and the book does not focus on his achievements in mathematics. Instead, it discusses more about how he relates to other mathematicians, and his tireless efforts in trying to establish and nurture two centers of excellence in mathematics - the Mathematical Institute at Gottingen and the Courant Institute of Mathematics at New York.
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Summary: Great book!!!!
Comment: If you are interested in mathematics and are/aren't a mathematician, if you are interested in American/German jewish history of the 20th century, if you are interested in science during WW2, you will love this book - I did!
Editorial Review for Courant:
Almost twenty-five years after his death, Richard Courant remains a highly controversial figure. The deep affection he inspired among friends, colleagues and students is still matched by distrust and dislike in much of the mathematical community. He was a man of such contradictions in character and action that one of his colleagues, resorting to an accepted mathematical method of proof, claimed "by contradiction" that he simply did not exist. But exist he did. On April 1, 1933, he was an internationally famous and influential German professor, the director of the first institute in the world devoted entirely to mathematics, a trusted adviser of the education ministry, a successful author and editor, a man surrounded by a mathematical family of gifted students. Eight days later, he was dismissed from his position by the Nazis. Through friends, he obtained a modest position in the United States at a University with no mathematical reputation whatsoever. What followed-the founding and development of one of America's most important centers of applied mathematics, the Courant Institute at New York University-is one of the great success stories of mathematics. Courant is Constance Reid's engrossing account of the life of this compelling, enigmatic, and perversely heroic mathematician.