Transforming Tradition: Richard Courant in Göttingen

David E. Rowe
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David E. Rowe: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Institut für Mathematik

Chapter 28 in A Richer Picture of Mathematics, 2018, pp 343-355 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Richard Courant had a knack for being at the right place at the right time. He came to Göttingen in 1907, just when Hilbert and Minkowski were delving into fast-breaking developments in electron theory. There he joined three other students who also came from Breslau: Otto Toeplitz, Ernst Hellinger, and Max Born, all three, like him, from a German Jewish background. Toeplitz was their natural intellectual leader, in part because his father was an Oberlehrer at the Breslau Gymnasium (Müller-Stach 2014). Courant was five or six years younger than the others; he was sociable and ambitious, but also far poorer than they (Reid 1976, 8–13).

Keywords: Richard Courant; Otto Toeplitz; Yellow Series; Berlin Faculty; Schoenflies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67819-1_28

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