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
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.
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.
struggle years intellectual
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.