German American mathematician (1888-1972) 
Richard Courant, 1969 Foto: Konrad Jacobs |
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| Name in native language | - Richard Courant (ˈʁɪçaɐ̯t ˈkuʁant)
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| Date of birth | 8 January 1888
Lubliniec |
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| Date of death | 27 January 1972
New Rochelle |
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| Doctoral student | - Martin David Kruskal (1952)
- Herbert Busemann (1931)
- William Feller (1926)
- Kurt Otto Friedrichs (1925)
- Fritz John (1934)
- Joseph Keller (1948)
- Edgar Krahn (1925)
- Anneli Cahn Lax (1955)
- Hans Lewy (1925)
- Otto E. Neugebauer (1926)
- Franz Rellich (1929)
- Klaus Zweiling (1923)
- Max Shiffman (1938)
- Reinhold Baer (1927)
- Leifur Ásgeirsson (1933)
- Charles Raymond De Prima (1943)
- Hans Fitting (1931)
- Harold Grad (1948)
- Horst Herrmann (1932)
- Werner von Koppenfels (1929)
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| Notable work | - Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy condition
- Courant minimax principle
- What Is Mathematics? (1941)
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