Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
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)