Series I: Files from the Home of Ernst Courant, 1907-1969
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Series I contains the earliest material in the collection and is mostly correspondence. The bulk of the series spans the years 1900-1940, covering Courant's time as a young student to his immigration to the U.S., but also includes files from around the time of his death. The series contains materials on Courant's schooling in Germany, including diplomas, certificates and records of his coursework as well as documents from his time in the German Army during World War I. These include trench maps and a certificate for a war service medal. Much of the series consists of correspondence with colleagues at the University of Göttingen, their articles and dissertations. The letters pertain to mathematics at Göttingen, the effects of the Nazi regime on academia and mathematics and other personal matters. Courant's move from Germany to the U.S. is also documented in this series.
Some material in Series I was used by Courant biographer Constance Reid. This is indicated by folder-level notes.
Subseries A: Correspondence
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Correspondence, ca. 1904-1907
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Materials related to Courant's schooling, 1905-1910; incl. Courant's certificate from completion from gymnasium (secondary school) in Breslau, materials related to his studies at the gymnasium and various universities he attended, such as Zürich and Göttingen.
(Official) Correspondence (with Prussian Education Ministry), 1918, 1920-1921
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Includes official patent allowing Courant to use the title "Professor," dated January 8, 1918, and correspondence to/from the Prussian Ministry of Science, Art, and National Education, 1920-1921 re: Courant's appointments at Münster and Göttingen.
Correspondence with Harald Bohr, 1930-1933
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Correspondence, 1933
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Includes correspondence with E.M. Wright, Nina Courant (and children), Herbert Busemann, Willy Feller, Otto Neugebauer, Franz Rellich, Carl Siegel, Max Dehn, Fritz John, Karl Friedrichs (father of K. O. Friedrichs), Erwin Schoedinger, Anna Essinger, James Franck, Adriaan Fokker, Friedrich "Fritz" Courant, and Hans Bolza
Correspondence, 1933
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Includes correspondence with Carl Siegel, Louis J. Mordell, Erich Bessel-Hagen, Wilhelm Cauer, Hermann Thiersch, Adolf Windaus, Ferdinand Springer
Correspondence, 1920, 1937, 1946-1947, n.d.
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Includes correspondence with Carl Still, Käthe Hilbert, Gaston Julia, Helmut Ulm, Nellie Friedrichs
Correspondence, 1934
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Includes correspondence with William Feller, Werner Fenchel, Otto Neugebauer
Correspondence--50th Birthday, 1937-1938
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Includes correspondence with Otto Neugebauer, Carl Siegel, Max Dehn, Ernst Hellinger, Paul Epstein, Harald Bohr, Niels Bohr, Werner Fenchel, Jakob Nielsen, Niels Norlund, Emil and Natascha Artin, Edmund Landau, William Feller, Carl Still, Issai Schur
Correspondence, 1932-1936
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Includes correspondence with Wilbur Tisdale, Max Dehn, James Franck, Ferdinand Springer, Harald Bohr, Otto Blumenthal, Bela Kerekjarto, copy of a 1934 letter from Gustav Doetsch to Erhard Tornier, materials dealing with Courant's exemption from the emigration tax,
Correspondence, 1966-1971
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Correspondence--80th Birthday, 1968
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Correspondence re: "the aunts", 1948
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Contains letters about Courant's aunts (from his wife's family) who remained in Germany during World War II
Correspondence on Germany, 1946
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Correspondence about Germany after 1946, including long letter from Courant's brother-in-law, Wilhelm Runge about Germany directly after WWII as well as incomplete letter from B. L. van der Waerden
Correspondence ("for Nina"), 1948, 1966-1967
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Correspondence with Carl Siegel, Pavel Alexandroff & others, including son-in-law Jürgen Moser
Correspondence: A, 1931-1933
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Correspondence with Pavel Alexandroff, R. C. Archibald, the German Automobile Association, and others
Correspondence: A-F, 1934
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Correspondence used by Constance Reid in her Courant biography, including letters organizing Courant's stay at Cambridge in 1934, as well as several letters from future Nazi Wilhelm Blaschke
Correspondence: A-B, 1934-1937
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Correspondence to/from Academic Assistance Council, Pavel Alexandroff, Bruno Amerant, American Mathematical Society, Martha Anderson and R.C. Archibald.
Correspondence: A-B, 1934-1937
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Correspondence to/from N.M. Basu, Lulu von Bechtolsheim, Winthrop Bell and Ilse Benfey
Correspondence: A-B, 1934-1937
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Correspondence to/from Peter Gabriel Bermann, Arnold Berliner, L. Berwald, Abram Besicovitch, Eric Bessel-Hagen, Albert Betz, George Birkoff, Wilhelm Blaschke, Otto Blumenthal, Arthur Boehm and F. Bohnenblust
Correspondence: A-B, 1934-1937
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Corresondence to/from Harald Bohr, Niels Bohr, Hans Bolza, Alfred Brauer and Richard Brauer
Correspondence: A-B, 1934-1937
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Misc. correspondence
Correspondence: B (1 of 2), 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with Nellie Bruell (wife of K.O. Friedrichs) and her father re: Friedrichs and Bruell's emigration to the United States, 1936
Correspondence: B (2 of 2), 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with Herbert Busemann, Max Born, and Hedi Born
Correspondence: A-B, 1935
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Includes copies of outgoing correspondence to Richard Brauer and Herbert Busemann (see Box 2, Folders 5 and 7 for originals)
Correspondence: A-E (1 of 2), 1937-1940
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Includes correspondence with Emil Artin, Erich Bessel-Hagen, Herbert Beyer (Courant's lawyer in Germany during the 1930s), and Harald Bohr
Correspondence: A-E (2 of 2), 1937-1940
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Includes correspondence with Niels (& Margrethe) Bohr, Hans Bolza, Herbert Busemann, Jesse Douglas, Albert Einstein
Correspondence: A-G (1 of 2), 1960-1969
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Includes correspondence with Hel Braun, Vannevar Bush, and K.O. Friedrichs
Correspondence: A-G (2 of 2), 1960-1969
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Includes correspondence with Aage Bohr (son of Niels Bohr), Margrethe Bohr (wife of Niels Bohr), Max Born, Pavel Alexandroff, Hedi Born, Heinrich Behnke, and the Atomic Energy Commission re: Fermi Award
Correspondence: B (1 of 3), 1930-1933
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Includes correspondence with Wilhelm Blaschke, Otto Blumenthal, and Hans Bolza
Correspondence: B (2 of 3), 1930-1933
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Includes correspondence with Fritz Baade, Reinhold Baer, Heinrich Behnke, Winthrop Bell, University of California, Berkeley re: Courant teaching there summer 1932, Paul Bernays, Felix Bernstein, Sergei Bernstein, Abram Besicovitch, Erich Bessel-Hagen, and Ludwig Bieberbach
Correspondence: B (3 of 3), 1930-1933
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Includes correspondence with Max and Hedi Born, Alfred Brauer, Richard Brauer, Alfred Busemann, Herbert Busemann, and Vannevar Bush
Correspondence: Benfey, Ilse, 1934-1935
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Correspondence: Bernays, Paul, 1934-1936
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Correspondence: Beyer, Herbert - Göttingen, 1956
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Includes materials dealing with compensation from the German government for Courant's wrongful termination from the University of Göttingen in 1933
Correspondence: Blackie & Son, 1933-1944
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Correspondence: Blackie & Son, 1933-1944
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Correspondence: Blackie & Son, 1933-1944
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Correspondence: Blackie & Son, 1955-1968
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Correspondence: Blake, Whitney (see "Oxford University Press"), 1961-1967
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Correspondence: Blumenthal, Otto, 1934-1935
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Correspondence: Bohr, Harald, 1933-1934
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Material used by Constance Reid
Correspondence: Bohr, Harald, 1933-1935
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Includes correspondence with Harald Bohr as well as a copy of Bohr's 1934 article (in Danish) from the "Berlingske Akten" criticizing Ludwig Bieberbach's attempts to "Aryanize" German mathematics.
Correspondence: Born, Max and Heidi, 1937-1940
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Correspondence: C, 1929-1936, undated
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Includes correspondence with Constantin Caratheodory, Wilhelm Cauer, Stefan Cohn-Vossen, and Harald Cramer
Correspondence: C-G, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with J.R. Carson (Bell Laboratories), Walter Cahn, and Courant's cousin Erich Courant
Correspondence: C-G, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with son Ernst, brother Fritz and mother Martha Courant as well as Hans Reich, Arthur Boehm, and Harald Cramer. Contains a copy of Martha Courant's last will and testament.
Correspondence: C-G, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with Harold Davenport, Max and Helmut Dehn, communication with UC Berkeley re: possible appointment there in 1934, Courant's official letter of resignation from the Deutsche Mathematische Vereinigung (German Mathematical Society), and correspondence with the University of Göttingen re: Courant's pension after his forced retirement
Correspondence: C-G, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with Gustav Doetsch, Jesse Douglas, Arnold Dresden, as well as official correspondence with the Landesfinanzamt Hannover re: Courant's bank accounts and money in Germany
Correspondence: C-G, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with relatives such as "Gerta," "Rose," "Dolly," and "Ursula," as well as correspondence with Heinrich Düker, G. Waldo Dunnington, and Albert Einstein
Correspondence: C-G, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with William Feller
Correspondence: C-G, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with Werner Fenchel, Gustav Fischer Publishers, Donald Flanders, and Abraham Flexner
Correspondence: C-G, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with William Flexner, Wilhelm Flügge, and Abraham Fraenkel
Correspondence: C-G, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with Hermann Fränkel and K.O. Friedrichs
Correspondence: C-G, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with the American consul in Hamburg re: immigration visa for Ilse Benfey and communication with German Consulate General in New York
Correspondence: C-G, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with Georges Giraud, Henry Goldman (of Goldman Sachs), Sydney Goldstein, Maria Goeppert-Meyer
Correspondence: C-G, 1934-1936
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Includes corresondence with Emil Julius Gumbel and Albert Einstein
Correspondence: Courant Family, 1967-1971
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Includes correspondence with Nina Courant, Courant's children, and other family members
Correspondence: Courant, Fritz, 1936-1939
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Correspondence: Courant, Fritz, 1936-1939
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Correspondence: Courant, Fritz, 1940-1943
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Correspondence: Courant, Fritz, 1940-1943
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Correspondence: Courant, Fritz - Illness, 1939-1944
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Includes correspondence with doctors in America and Brazil re: Fritz Courant's illness and death
Correspondence: D, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Gustav Doetsch and Jesse Douglas
Correspondence: Deutsch, Monroe (Berkeley), 1933-1934
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Correspondence with Monroe Deutsch, Vice President of Berkeley, re: possible appointment there for Courant in 1934
Correspondence: Divorce, 1915-1916
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Materials relating to Courant's divorce from his first wife, Nelly Neumann in 1916. Includes a 1930s copy of Courant's official divorce certificate from 1916, as well as correspondence with Nelly Neumann and Max Neumann, Nelly's father.
Correspondence: E, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Dmitri Egorov re: Moscow Mathematical Society, Paul Ehrenfest, Theodor Estermann, and Arnold Eucken
Correspondence: F to L, 1937-1941
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Includes correspondence with Abraham Flexner, Abraham Fraenkel, Felix Frankfurter, Kurt Friedrichs, Jakob Goldschmidt, Kurt Grelling, Gustav Hertz and Fritz John. This folder includes a list of professors dismissed from Göttingen in 1933.
Correspondence: F to L, 1937-1941
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Correspondence to/from Theodor von Karman, Max von Laue, Solomon Lefschetz, Hans Lewy, Tullio Levi-Civita, and Rudolf Lüneburg.
Correspondence: Fakultät to Julia, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Gaston Julia and Max Born (in his official position as dean of the mathematics and physics faculty at Göttingen)
Correspondence: Fakultät to Julia, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with William Feller and Werner Fenchel
Correspondence: Fakultät to Julia, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Abraham Flexner
Correspondence: Fakultät to Julia, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Hans Freudenthal, K.O. Friedrichs, Paul Funk, and Harald Geppert
Correspondence: Fakultät to Julia, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with the Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Georges Giraud, Victor M. Goldschimdt, Jakob Goldschmidt, Maria Goeppert-Meyer, Walter de Gruyter Verlag, Jacques Hadamard, Hans Hahn, Kurt Hahn
Correspondence: Fakultät to Julia, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with G. H. Hardy, Helmut Hasse, and Otto Haupt re: translation of mathematical works
Correspondence: Fakultät to Julia, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Einar Hille, Ernst Hellinger, Werner von Hentig, Gustav Herglotz, and Gustav Hertz
Correspondence: Fakultät to Julia, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with David Hilbert, George de Hevesy, and Eberhard Hopf
Correspondence: Fakultät to Julia, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Heinz Hopf
Correspondence: Federal Reserve Bank, 1941-1944
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Includes correspondence with Fritz Courant and the Federal Reserve Bank re: money transfers to Fritz Courant in Brazil during World War II
Correspondence: Flexner, Abraham, 1933-1934
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Material used by Constance Reid.
Correspondence: Flexner, Abraham, 1934-1935
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Correspondence: Fragner, Adolf, 1938-1940
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Correspondence: Franck, James, 1931-1939, 1954-1956, undated
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Correspondence: Franck, James, 1933-1934
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Material used by Constance Reid.
Correspondence: Franck to M, 1934
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Material used by Constance Reid, includes correspondence with Louis J. Mordell, Erwin Madelung, Rudolf Lüneburg, Hans Lewy, Heinz Hopf, Kurt Hahn, and Hilda Geiringer
Correspondence: Friedrichs, K.O. (use copies), 1934-1935
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Correspondence: Hasse, Helmut, 1933-1934
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Material used by Constance Reid.
Correspondence: H-K, 1961-1969
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Includes correspondence with Otto Hahn, Paul Peter Ewald, Stefan Hildebrandt, and Heinz Hopf
Correspondence: Kamlah to Muntz, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Theodor von Karman, Oliver Kellogg, David Hilbert, and Hellmuth Kneser
Correspondence: Kamlah to Muntz, 1926-1933
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Correspondence with Rudolf Ladenburg, Edmund and Marianne Landau, son Mattias, Solomon Lefschetz, Derrick Henry Lehmer, Tuillio Levi-Civita, Hans Lewy, and Leon Lichtenstein
Correspondence: Kamlah to Muntz, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Konrad Knopp, Andrey Kolmogorov, Denes Konig (including rough draft of forward to Konig's book Theorie der endlichen und unendlichen Graphen), Richard Konig, Gottfried Koethe, Nikolay Krylov, Robert Kuczynski, Erica Kueppers, and Justus Valentiner, Kurator of the University of Göttingen
Correspondence: Kamlah to Muntz, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Frederick Lindemann, Edward Hubert Linfoot, John Edensor Littlewood, Rudolf Lüneburg, Wilhelm Magnus, Kurt Mahler, and Heinz Maier-Leibniz, as well as a copy of the introduction to the English translation of Courant's lectures on differential and integral calculus
Correspondence: Kamlah to Muntz, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Hermann Francis Mark, Max Mason (President of the Rockefeller Foundation), Maria Goeppert-Mayer, and the Prussian Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Kunst, und Volksbildung (government agency responsible for German universities)
Correspondence: Kamlah to Muntz, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Guste Minkowski (wife of Hermann Minkowski), Richard Mises, Louis J. Mordell, Marston Morse, C. Herman Müntz, as well as a letter from George Minot to David Hilbert re: treatments for Hilbert's illness
Correspondence: Knesner, Hellmuth, 1933
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Material used by Constance Reid.
Correspondence: L to Q, 1961-1969, undated
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Includes correspondence with Saunders Mac Lane, Mikhail Lavrentyev, Gury Marchuk, Wilhelm Magnus, Frederick Seitz, Olga Oleinik, and William Prager
Correspondence: Mader to Zollamt, 1927
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Includes correspondence with Bartel van der Waerden, Hermann Weyl, Richard von Mises, Paul Oppenheim, Alexander Ostrowski, Justus Valentiner, Kurator of the University of Göttingen, Arnold Berliner (editor of Die Naturwissenschaften), the Prussian Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Kunst, und Volksbildung, and the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft (Emergency Association for German Science)
Correspondence: Mader to Zollamt, 1927
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Includes correspondence with Salvatore Pincherle, Robert Pohl, George Polya, Ludwig Prandtl, Georg Prange, Tibor Rado, Kurt Reidemeister, Albrecht Renner, Walther Rosemann, Arthur Rosenthal, Horst von Sanden (with Otto Blumenthal), Arnold Sommerfeld, Andreas Speiser, as well as correspondence with the Prussian Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Kunst, und Volksbildung re: construction of new Mathematical Institute using funds from the Rockefeller Institute, and materials relating to the death of Carl Runge (Courant's father-in-law), including last will and testament
Correspondence: Mader to Zollamt, 1927
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Includes correspondence with Karl Scheel, Ludwig Schlesinger, Jan Arnoldus Schouten, Otto Schreier, Erwin Schrödinger, Elsa Schwarzschild (widow of Karl Schwarzschild), Edith Stein, Julius Stenzel, Wolfgang Sternberg, Carl and Hanna Still, Otto Toeplitz, and Justus Valentiner, Kurator of the University of Göttingen
Correspondence: Mader to Zollamt, 1927
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Includes correspondence with Alwin Walther, Andre Weil, William M. Whyburn, Eugene Wigner, Alexander Witting, as well as correspondence with the Prussian Ministry of Science, Art, and National Culture re: Courant's recommendations for professorial appointments at other German universities. Also includes a letter from E.L. Weatherburn to David Hilbert.
Correspondence: M to N (1 of 2), 1937-1939
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Includes correspondence with Erwin Schrödinger, Anton E. Mayer, Ludwig von Mises, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Marston Morse, Chaim Muentz, and Otto Neugebauer
Correspondence: M to N (2 of 2), 1937-1939
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Includes correspondence with John von Neumann, Otto Neurath (re: International Institute for the Unity of Science), Jakob Nielsen, Gottfried Noether, Herman Nohl, and the Notgemeinschaft deutscher Wissenschaftler im Ausland (Emergency Society for German Scientists in Foreign Countries)
Correspondence: Nagumo to Reichsverband, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Arnold Berliner (as editor of Die Naturwissenschaften), Otto Neugebauer, John von Neumann, Rolf Nevanlinna, Max H. A. Newman, Jakob Nielsen, Charles Albert Noble, Emmy Noether, Bruno Jung (mayor of Göttingen), Alexander Ostrowski, Wolfgang Pauli, Nikolaus Pevsner, Mauro Picone, Robert Pohl, Hilda Geiringer (under married name Hilda Pollaczek), George Polya, William Prager, Ludwig Prandtl, Georg Prange, Alfred Pringsheim, Hans Rademacher, Tibor Rado, and Hans Reichenbach
Correspondence: Nagumo to Reichsverband, 1929-1933
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Correspondence: "Nelli" [Nelly Neumann], 1915-1916
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Includes correspondence between Courant and Nelly Neumann post-divorce re: division of assets, legal documents pertaining to the divorce and legal bills from Courant's lawyer.
Correspondence: N to Z, 1934
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Material used by Constance Reid. Includes correspondence with George Polya, William Prager, Kurt Reidemeister, Erich Rothe, Dolli Schoenberg, Wolfgang Sternberg, Carl and Hanna Still, Hermann Thiersch, Max Wertheimer, and Edmund T. Whittaker
Correspondence: Newman, M.H.A., 1933-1934
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Correspondence with Max H.A. Newman re: Courant's one-year appointment at Cambridge in 1933-1934
Correspondence: O to R, 1937-1940
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Includes correspondence with Erwin Panofsky, Wolfgang Panofsky, Victor and Susanna Paschkis, Helene and Max Pick, Hilde Pick, Marcello Pirani, William Prager, Ludwig Prandtl, Hans Rademacher, and Tibor Rado
Correspondence: O to R, 1937-1940
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Includes correspondence with Franz Rellich, Werner Richter, Herbert Robbins, Arthur Rosenthal, Erich Rothe, Iris Runge, and Wilhelm Runge
Correspondence: Re to Sel, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Kurt Reidemeister (including a copy of the forward to his book on the foundations of geometry), R.G.D. Richardson, Howard Percy Robertson, Arthur Rosenthal, the rector of the Unviersity of Göttingen, as well as documents relating to Franz Rellich's Habilitation
Correspondence: Re to Sel, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Erich Rothe, mother-in-law Aimee Runge, sisters-in-law Aimee Luisa and Ella Runge, and brother-in-law Wilhelm Runge, Erich Salkowski, Horst von Sanden
Correspondence: R to Z, 1961-1969
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Includes correspondence with Constance Reid, Herbert Robbins, Wilhelm Runge, sister-in-law Iris Runge, Carl Siegel, Marianne Still (daughter-in-law of Carl Still), Lewis Strauss, F.K. Schmidt, Edward Teller, Hannah Vogt, Warren Weaver, Gian Carlo Wick, Margaret Wiener (wife of Norbert Wiener)
Correspondence: Rellich, Franz, 1947-1954, 1963-1966
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Includes correspondence with Franz and Brigitte Rellich, Alwin Walther, and Erich Hecke
Correspondence: Sen to Sch, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Carl Siegel, Arnold Sommerfeld, Pauline Sperry, and Leo Spitzer
Correspondence: Sen to Sch, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Otto Szasz, Gabor Szego, Julius Schrauder, Ludwig Schlesinger, F.K. Schmidt, Otto Schmidt, Abram Ioffe, Lev Schnirelman, Isaac Schoenberg, Jan Arnoldus Schouten, Erwin Schrödinger, Issai Schur, and Hans Schwerdtfeger
Correspondence: Shi to Stei, 1933-1937
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Includes correspondence with Carl Siegel, David Eugene Smith, Frank Smithies, and Andreas Speiser
Correspondence: Shi to Stei, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with Hertha Sponer (and James Franck), Ferdinand Springer (and family), and Wolfgang Stechow
Correspondence: Sten to Struik, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with Otto Stern, Wolfgang Sternberg, and Carl Still (and family)
Correspondence: Sten to Struik, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with J.J. Stoker and Marshall Harvey Stone
Correspondence: Sullivan to Veblen, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with Otto Szasz, Gabor Szego (including proposed outline of his 1939 book Orthogonal Polynomials), Jacob David Tamarkin, Olga Taussky-Todd, Hermann Thiersch, Stephen Timoshenko, and Otto Toeplitz
Correspondence: Sullivan to Veblen, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with Alan Turing, Helmut Ulm, and Oswald Veblen
Correspondence: S to Sp, 1937-1940
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Includes correspondence with Michael A. Sadowsky, George Sarton, and F.K. Schmidt
Correspondence: S to Sp, 1937-1940
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Includes correspondence with F.K. Schmidt
Correspondence: S to Sp, 1937-1940
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Includes correspondence with with Iso and Dolly Schoenberg (daughter of Edmund Landau), Erwin Schrödinger, Heinz and Susanna von Schüching (daughter of Edmund Landau), Martin Schwarzschild, and Hans Schwerdtfeger
Correspondence: S to Sp, 1937-1940
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Includes correspondence with Else Staudinger, and Carl Siegel
Correspondence: Staiger to Zorn, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Wolfgang Sternberg, Carl and Hanna Still, Hans Stille, Simon Stoilow, Marshall Harvey Stone, Jacob David Tamarkin, Olga Taussky-Todd, Hermann Thiersch, Hans Thunsdorff, Stephen Timoshenko, Otto Toeplitz, and Leonida Tonelli
Correspondence: Staiger to Zorn, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Erhard Tornier, Helmut Ulm, Oswald Veblen, Bartel van der Waerden, Alwin Walther, John Walz, Stefan Warschawski, and Werner Weber
Correspondence: Staiger to Zorn, 1929-1933
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Includes correspondence with Andre Weil, Alexander Weinstein, Hermann Weyl, Norbert Wiener, Aurel Wintner, Edward Maitland Wright, Kunizo Yoneyama, Max Zacharias, Ernst Zermelo, and Max Zorn
Correspondence: St to Sz, 1936-1943
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Includes correspondence with Hans Staehle, Martha Stein (Courant's cousin), Wolfgang Sternberg, Carl and Hanna Still, Marshall Harvey Stone, Lewis Strauss, Dirk Jan Struik, Otto Szasz, and Gabor Szego
Correspondence: Victoria to Zinnecker, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan, Bartel van der Waerden, Alwin Walther, Warren Weaver, Alexander Weinstein, Max Wertheimer, Hermann Weyl, Anna Wheeler, and Edmund T. Whittaker
Correspondence: Victoria to Zinnecker, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with Raymond L. Wilder, Rupert Wildt, Adolf Windaus, and Aurel Wintner
Correspondence: Weyl, Hermann, 1933-1934
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Material used by Constance Reid.
Correspondence: Whyte, John, 1934-1936
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Includes correspondence with John Whyte and Edward R. Murrow re: Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars as well as correspondence with Alfred Errera, Griffith C. Evans, Paul Peter and Ella Ewald, as well as Rose Ewald (P.P. Ewald's daughter)
Correspondence: John Wiley & Sons Inc. (Interscience Publishers), 1962-1971
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Correspondence re: Courant and Fritz John's textbook, Calculus.
Correspondence: Veblen, Oswald, 1933-1934
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Correspondence re: Courant's appointment at NYU.
Subseries B: Subject Files
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Berlin Trading Company (Berliner Handelsgesellschaft), 1937-1963
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Correspondence with the bank Berlin Handels-Gesellschaft. Includes information about the Courants' account there, before and after WWII.
Beyer, Herbert, 1952-1954
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Correspondence with Werner Richter, Herbert Beyer re: restitution for firing and lost income at Göttingen after 1933.
Born, Max--Lectures (retirement), circa 1961
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Copies of lectures by Max Born, circa 1961, incl. "How I Became a Physicist." "What I Did as a Physicist." and "Reflections"
Bohr, Niels, 1950, 1967, undated
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Copy of Niels Bohr's 1950 "Open Letter to the United Nations" about nuclear weapons control, excerpts (possibly galley prints) of pictures from a book/magazine article about the life of Niels Bohr. Also includes 1967 letter from Pavel Alexandroff to Nina Courant
Calculus I--Courant-John, 1964-1966
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Differential and Integral Calculus, 1963, 1968
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Differential and Integral Calculus--Translation Bios, 1939, 1950-1954
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Differential and Integral Calculus--Portuguese Edition, 1971
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Differential and Integral Calculus--Publishers' Bios, 1937-1947
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Differential and Integral Calculus--Spanish Edition, 1940, 1950-1959
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Feld Telegraphie, 1917-1918
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Materials relating to Courant's service in the German Army in WWI, especially relating to earth telegraphy. An issue of the newspaper Die Rote Fahne has been removed to flat file storage.
Feld Telegraphie, 1917-1918
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Materials (letters, telegrams, etc.) relating to Courant's service in the German Army in WWI, including photographs of his telegraph apparatus
Feld Telegraphie, 1917-1918
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This folder contained several maps from WWI of the German front, trenches and testing areas for Courant's earth telegraph system as well as the certificate for the Military Merit Cross Courant received in 1916. The maps were relocated to flat storage and the certificate was moved to Box 96.
Feld Telegraphie, 1917-1918
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Materials (letters, telegrams, etc.) relating to Courant's service in German Army during WWI and his earth telegraphy system, including a typed description of how Courant's machines worked
Foundations, Ford and Heineman, 1948-1949, undated
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Göttingen Institute, 1926 undated
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Documents relating to 1926-1927 agreement between the University of Göttingen and the International Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation on funding of new mathematical institute. Includes communication between Courant, Franck, and Augustus Trowbridge, the IEB's head in Europe.
Göttingen--Correspondence re: Dismissal (1 of 2), 1933-1934
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Includes letters from Ferdinand Springer, publisher Hermann Weyl, Ludwig Prandtl, University Kurator Justus Valentiner, Max Reich, Hermann Thiersch, Helmut Hasse, as well as copies of relevant newspaper articles, original copy of the Nazi Civil Service Law, Courant's official letter of forced retirement from 1935 and petition to the ministry to allow him to continue teaching.
Göttingen--Correspondence re: Dismissal (2 of 2), 1933-1934
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Introduction to Calculus and Analysis, 1965-1967
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Istanbul offer, 1933
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Material used by Constance Reid.
Legal Documents (copies), 1934-1935, undated
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Contains copies of Courant's marriage certificate, childrens' birth certificates. Also includes correspndence from early years at NYU.
[Methods of Mathematical Physics] Vol. III, Chap. 1 draft, 1968
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Methods of Mathematical Physics--Italian edition, 1963
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Methods of Mathematical Physics--Nazis, 1945
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Copies of Nazi documents from 1944-1945 requesting special permission to reprint Courant-Hilbert, Volume I.
Methods of Mathematical Physics--Publicity, 1961-1963
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Methods of Mathematical Physics I, II--Corrections, 1961-1966
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Methods of Mathematical Physics I, II--Translation Bios, 1949-1954, 1958
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Moscow, 1968
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Office of Alien Property claim forms, circa 1948
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Oppenheimer case (1 of 2), 1954
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Oppenheimer case (2 of 2), 1954
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Publication rights, 1964-1967
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Publication rights, 1965-1970
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Registration book (Göttingen), 1907-1910
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Courant's registration book from his years as a student in Göttingen, including list of courses, with instructors.
Religion--essays, papers (1 of 3), 1925, undated
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Box 11, Folder 21-22 and Box 12, Folder 1 contain various essays about Christianity in Germany, sermons and church programs. Some of the essays were written by members of the Runge family.
Religion--essays, papers (2 of 3), 1902, 1916, 1933-1934, undated
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Religion--essays, papers (3 of 3), 1927, 1940, undated
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Rockefeller Foundation stipends, 1925-1927
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Includes letters between Courant (and Hilbert) and Rockefeller Foundation's IEB.
Rockefeller Foundation stipends, 1927-1933
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Includes letters between Courant (and Hilbert) and Rockefeller Foundation's IEB.
Runge, Carl--Obituary, 1927
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Scrapbook from Joint Soviet-American Symposium on Partial Differential Equations, circa 1963
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Shipment of belongings, 1934
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Springer-Verlag--accounts, 1928-1937, undated
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Springer-Verlag--compensation, 1957-1958
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Springer-Verlag--general (1 of 2), 1951-1955
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Springer-Verlag--general (2 of 2), 1951-1955
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Springer-Verlag--general, 1956-1960
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Springer-Verlag--general, 1961-1962
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Springer-Verlag--general, 1961-1966
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Springer-Verlag--general, 1962-1963
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Springer-Verlag--general, 1964-1968
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Springer-Verlag--general, 1967-1971
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Springer-Verlag--general, 1969-1971
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Springer-Verlag--Hanseatic Corp., 1934-1937
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Material used by Constance Reid.
Springer-Verlag--Office of Alien Property claim, 1941-1950
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Springer-Verlag--resignation from board, 1939
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Materials detailing Courant and others' resignation from the board of German math journal Zentralblatt für Mathematik, and the potential founding of an American version of the Zentralblatt.
Springer-Verlag--taxes, 1934-1935
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Sympathy letters to Nina Courant on professor's passing, 1972
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"Ueber langsam veraenderliche Wechselstroeme in der Erde und einige Fragen der Geophysik", 1926
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Urysohn Scholarship Fund, 1933-1935
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Viktoria "Restit. S9" (life insurance), 1933-1938, 1959
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Wiedergutmachung, undated, [1959]
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Part of a letter detailing Courant's attempts to get restitution/reparations after WWII. Also includes letter from Herbert Beyer.
What is Mathematics?--general, 1962-1970
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What is Mathematics?--general, 1962-1970
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What is Mathematics?--Hungarian edition, 1959-1960
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What is Mathematics?--Italian edition, 1948-1953, 1960
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What is Mathematics?--Japanese edition, 1954-1960
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What is Mathematics?--Permissions, 1947-1960
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What is Mathematics?--Polish edition, 1952-1958
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What is Mathematics?--Polish edition, 1961-1967
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What is Mathematics?--Publicity (1 of 2), 1941-1951
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What is Mathematics?--Publicity (2 of 2), 1941-1951
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What is Mathematics?--Publishers' bios, 1939-1941
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What is Mathematics?--Spanish edition, 1945-1960
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What is Mathematics?--Yugoslavian edition, 1967-1969
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J. Wiley and Sons, 1959-1973
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J. Wiley and Sons, 1959-1973
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World War I documents, circa 1918
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Document certifying Courant was wounded in combat
Zentralblatt resignation (Transformation Korrespondenz für Andere), 1938, 1941, undated
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Includes correspondence with Neugebauer, Ferdinand Springer, Harald Bohr, R.C. Archibald, Oswald Veblen, Marston Morse, Simon Lefschetz, George Birkhoff, and F.K. Schmidt re: Courant's resignation from the Zentralblatt für Mathematik, Otto Neugebauer's appointment at Brown University in 1939, and the potential founding of an American version of the Zentralblatt.