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Courant
"...a story of great mathematicians and their achievements, of practical successes and failures, and of human perfidy and generosity...this is one of the still too rare occasions in which mathematicians are shown as frail, flesh-and-blood creatures...a very worthwhile book." -CHOICE
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345 pages, Paperback
Published April 19, 1996
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May 9, 2020
An entertaining biography of a remarkable mathematician: Richard Courant, one of the students of David Hilbert. He was one of the leading forces behind the completion of Klein's dream: a mathematical institute in Göttingen, but was forced to leave all behind because of fascism. Anyway he started again in the USA and build another mathematical institute at New York University.
In this book Constance Reid describes the mathematical environment in Göttingen and New York accomplishing the difficult task to makes us feel Mathematics as a living subject.
In this book Constance Reid describes the mathematical environment in Göttingen and New York accomplishing the difficult task to makes us feel Mathematics as a living subject.
March 21, 2017
nothing is more touching than to read the life story of mathematicians.
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