Richard Courant
Richard Courant
Richard Courantwas a German American mathematician. He is best known by the general public for the book What is Mathematics?, co-written with Herbert Robbins...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth8 January 1888
CountryGermany
Richard Courant quotes about
philosophy answers mathematics
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
men two sometimes
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.
struggle years intellectual
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.
statistics systematic principles
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.
reality men two
With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product of a long evolution that was neither initiated nor terminated by Newton and Leibniz, but in which both played a decisive part.
motivation essence ideas
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.
struggle expression perfection
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.
expression perfection mind
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the comtemplative reason, and the desire for aestetic perfection.
invention masters mathematician
Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.