The Improbable Life of Richard Courant

Event Detail

Event type: Lonseth Lecture
Date/Time: 05/16/2000-12:00   

Speaker info

Speaker: Constance Reid, Noted Mathematical Historian and Biographer

Abstract:
Almost thirty years after his death, Richard Courant remains a highly controversial figure in mathematics, complex and contradictory; but the message he emphasized throughout his long career was one that he had absorbed in his youth in Gottingen from David Hilbert and Felix Klein--the underlying unity of all the mathematical sciences, pure and applied.