Richard Courant
Richard Courant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search German American mathematician Richard Courant Born ( 1888-01-08 ) January 8, 1888 Lublinitz , German Empire (now Lubliniec , Poland ) Died January 27, 1972 (1972-01-27) (aged 84) New Rochelle, New York , US Citizenship Germany USA Alma mater University of Göttingen Known for Courant number Courant minimax principle Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy condition Scientific career Fields Mathematics Institutions University of Göttingen University of Münster University of Cambridge New York University Thesis On the application of Dirichlet's principle to the problems of conformal mapping (1910) Doctoral advisor David Hilbert Doctoral students Leifur Ásgeirsson Herbert Busemann William Feller Kurt Friedrichs Harold Grad Fritz John Joseph Keller Edgar Krahn Martin Kruskal Anneli Lax Hans Lewy Otto Neugebauer Franz Rellich R...