Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Richard Courant
Born: January 8, 1888
Died: January 27, 1972 (aged 84)
Bio: 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.
Known for:
- What Is Mathematics? (1941)
- Methoden der mathematischen Physik (1924)
- Introduction to Calculus and Analysis (1965)
- Differential and Integral Calculus (1942)
- Supersonic flow and shock waves (1944)