13 Quotes by Richard Courant

  • Author Richard Courant
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    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.

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    Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values – maxima and minima – has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

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    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.

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