Courant

by Constance Bowman Reid

Alpha and Omega.- One.- Two.- Three.- Four.- Five.- Six.- Seven.- Eight.- Nine.- Ten.- Eleven.- Twelve.- Thirteen.- Fourteen.- Fifteen.- Sixteen.- Seventeen.- Eighteen.- Nineteen.- Twenty.- Twenty-One.- Twenty-Two.- Twenty-Three.- Twenty-Four.- Twenty-Five.- Twenty-Six.- Twenty-Seven.- Twenty-Eight.

Genres: Science, Mathematics

348 pages, Paperback

Published May 26, 2013

Reviews

[Luis González Ricardo · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Xian zhang · Rating 5 out of 5]

nothing is more touching than to read the life story of mathematicians.