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PROF. R. COURANT, formerly of Gőttingen and now of New York, who is known to all mathematicians by Courant and Hilbert's "Methoden der Mathematischen Physik", attained his sixtieth birthday on January 8, 1948. To commemorate the occasion a number of his friends and colleagues were invited to contribute articles for a volume to be presented to him. Among the thirty-eight mathematicians who responded to this invitation are included such well-known authorities as Harald Bohr, Carathéodory, Franck, Hadamard, Kramers, Neugebauer, P61ya, and Van der Waerden. The papers cover a wide field, corresponding to the wide range of Courant's own work, and some of them are direct developments from this work. Although most of the authors are foreign, all but six of the papers are in English.
Studies and Essays presented to R. Courant on his 60th Birthday, January 8, 1948
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Studies and Essays presented to R. Courant on his 60th Birthday, January 8, 1948. Nature 162, 391 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162391d0
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