Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Lecture Notes
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The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences serves as New York Unviersity's mathematics research school. It grew from the Graduate School of Arts and Science's Department of Mathematics starting in 1935, when Richard Courant joined the faculty. The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Lecture Notes (1912-1984) mostly consists of lecture notes created by professors and teaching assistants from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from the 1930s through the 1980s.
Historical Note
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences serves as New York Unviersity's mathematics research school. It grew from the Graduate School of Arts and Science's Department of Mathematics starting in 1935, when Richard Courant joined the faculty. The Institute was named the Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics in 1946. In that year and in 1954, research projects led to the establishment of the Division of Wave Propagation and Applied Mathematics and the Division of Magnetofluid Dynamics, respectively. NYU's first computer was installed at the Courant Institute in 1952, and its Computer Science program rapidly developed to include research on programming languages, computer graphics, parallel architectures, and theory. In 1965, the Institute was renamed after Richard Courant and moved to the newly constructed Warren Weaver Hall, where a majority of its activities still take place. The Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics was created in 1978.
Arrangement
Arranged into three series:
Series I. Lecture Notes
Series II. Report and Remarks
Series III. Lectures at Other Institutions
All series are organized alphabetically by lecturer's name or title.
Content Description
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Lecture Notes (1912-1984) contains lecture notes created by professors and teaching assistants from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from the 1930s through the 1980s. Additionally, there is a report, a folder of joke "lecture notes" given to K.O. Friedrichs for his birthday, remarks delivered at Richard Courant's memorial, and lectures delivered by Richard Courant and others while teaching at different institutions. Notable lecturers include Richard Courant, Kurt O. Friedrichs, Fritz John, and Peter Lax, to name a few.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Lecture Notes; MC 391; box number; folder number or item identifier; New York University Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred by Courant Institute Library, August 2023. The accession number associated with the transfer is 2023.058.
Custodial History
It is assumed that these records were transferred to the Courant Institute Library by their creators. Documentation about these transfers varies across collections, and provenance is not always apparent. The transfer was treated as an administrative transfer to the New York University Archives from the Courant Institute in the summer of 2023 when the Courant Institute Library closed.
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Processing Information
Materials were placed in new acid-free folders and boxes. Binders were removed. Lecture notes were stored alphabetically in the filing cabinets and that order was maintained to the extent possible.