리하르트 쿠란트

소개

리하르트 쿠란트(독일어: Richard Courant, 1888년 1월 8일 ~ 1972년 1월 27일)는 독일 제국 태생의 수학자이다.

Richard Courant was a German-American mathematician. He is best known by the general public for the book What is Mathematics?, co-written with Herbert Robbins. His research focused on the areas of real analysis, mathematical physics, the calculus of variations and partial differential equations. He wrote textbooks widely used by generations of students of physics and mathematics. He is also known for founding the institute now bearing his name.