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Richard Courant

1888 - 1972

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Richard Courant (January 8, 1888 – January 27, 1972) was a German-American mathematician. He is best known by the general public for the book What is Mathematics?, co-written with Herbert Robbins. His research focused on the areas of real analysis, mathematical physics, the calculus of variations and partial differential equations. He wrote textbooks widely used by generations of students of physics and mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Courant is the 389th most popular mathematician (down from 385th in 2019), the 498th most popular biography from Poland (up from 542nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Richard Courant ranks 389 out of 1,004. Before him are Louis Nirenberg, Thomas Simpson, Ivan Vinogradov, Ostilio Ricci, Lothar Collatz, and Igor Shafarevich. After him are Rudolf Lipschitz, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Carl Ludwig Siegel, William George Horner, Helmut Hasse, and Qin Jiushao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Richard Courant ranks 91. Before him are Gunichi Mikawa, David Jacobs, Alphonse Juin, Fritz Reiner, Lead Belly, and Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. After him are Jean Wahl, José Félix Estigarribia, Chōjun Miyagi, Odile Defraye, Victor Goldschmidt, and Paul Ramadier. Among people deceased in 1972, Richard Courant ranks 84. Before him are Alejandra Pizarnik, Ross Bagdasarian, Watchman Nee, Chen Yi, Joseph Paul-Boncour, and Brandon deWilde. After him are C. Rajagopalachari, Fulbert Youlou, Edgar Snow, W. Ross Ashby, Ralph Craig, and Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Richard Courant ranks 498 out of 1,694. Before him are Otto von Gierke (1841), Georg Heym (1887), Jack Tramiel (1928), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), Eduard Strasburger (1844), and Jan Tarnowski (1488). After him are Frederick Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1734), Wanda Wasilewska (1905), Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905), Wolf Messing (1899), Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (1886), and Anna Leszczyńska (1699).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Poland

Among mathematicians born in Poland, Richard Courant ranks 17. Before him are Martin Kutta (1867), Hermann Grassmann (1809), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Vitello (1230), Hugo Steinhaus (1887), and Alfred Korzybski (1879). After him are Klaus Roth (1925), Michael O. Rabin (1931), Lazarus Fuchs (1833), Abraham Robinson (1918), Emil Leon Post (1897), and Theodor Kaluza (1885).

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