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Richard Courant
| German and American mathematician Date of Birth: Country: USA |
Biography of Richard Courant
Richard Courant was a German and American mathematician, educator, and scientific organizer.
He was born into a Jewish family and in the s, his family frequently moved from place to place, residing in Glatz, Breslau, and eventually Berlin in Richard enrolled at the University of Breslau but realized that the level of education there was insufficient, so he continued his studies at the University of Zurich and later at the University of Göttingen.
In Göttingen, Courant became a student and assistant of David Hilbert.
In , he received his doctorate for his work on "The Application of Dirichlet's Principle to the Problem of Conformal Mapping." In , he was called to serve in the German Imperial Army during World War I and participated on the French front.
After being demobilized in , Courant was appointed as a professor at the University of Münster. In , he re