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It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematic...

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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, a...

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What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that ...

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What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

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Richard Courant

Mathematician

Born: 1888-01-08

Died: 1972-01-27

Richard Courant (January 8, 1888 – January 27, 1972) was a German mathematician. He is best known by the general public for the 1941 book What is Mathematics?, co-written with Herbert Robbins.More