Richard Courant

20.3k citations
44 papers · 6.8k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 20
Topics
History and Theory of Mathematics (7 papers)Differential Equations and Boundary Problems (4 papers)Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (4 papers)

In The Last Decade

Richard Courant

42 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

On the Partial Difference Equations of Mathematical Physics19522026197620011967196219521964195450010001.5k

Peers

Richard Courant
Comparison fields: 5 of 173
  • Computational Mechanics 1.7k
  • Applied Mathematics 1.2k
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics 823
  • Mathematical Physics 780
  • Mechanics of Materials 729
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#WorkIndexed citations
1 9
2 56
3 240
4 12
5 26
6 1
7 186
8
On the Partial Difference Equations of Mathematical Physicsbreakdown →
1746
9 8
10 1
11
Introduction to Calculus and Analysis Vol 1
3
12 17
13
Methods of Mathematical Physicsbreakdown →
495
14
Calculus of variations and supplementary notes and exercises, 1945-1946
29
15 6
16 6
17
What is mathematics: an elementary approach to ideas and methods
149
18 2
19 0
20
On the solution of nonlinear hyperbolic differential equations by finite differencesbreakdown →
683

About Richard Courant

Richard Courant is a scholar working on Theoretical Computer Science, Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, having authored 44 papers that have together received 6.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include History and Theory of Mathematics (7 papers), Differential Equations and Boundary Problems (4 papers) and Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Applied Mathematics (1.2k citations), Theoretical Computer Science (113 citations) and Numerical Analysis (486 citations). Richard Courant has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Slovakia. Frequent co-authors include David Hilbert, Hans Lewy, Kurt Friedrichs, T. Teichmann, Eugene Isaacson, Mina Rees, Fritz John, Herbert Robbins, J. B. Díaz and Peter D. Lax. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physics Today and Mathematics of Computation.

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