Richard Courant
Richard Courant · Science & Medicine
Applied mathematics; finite element method; founded the Courant Institute
1888, Lublinitz, Germany (present-day Lubliniec, Poland) — 1972, New Rochelle, New York, United States
Germany · United States
Richard Courant is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Applied mathematics; finite element method; founded the Courant Institute
Richard Courant was a German-born Jewish mathematician who made major contributions to applied mathematics and helped originate the finite element method. Dismissed by the Nazis, he emigrated to the United States and founded what became New York University's Courant Institute, a world center for applied and computational mathematics.
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Applied mathematics; finite element method; founded the Courant Institute
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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