A survey of the career of Richard Courant, whose colleagues describe his influence and work. Includes his lecture on soap bubbles and minimal surfaces and reminiscences of the formation of the institutes of Goettingen and N.Y.U. Utilizes rare old footage of the giant of the Goettingen days, David Hilbert and his associates.
Copyright Mathematical Association of America, 1966.
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