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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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.
Repository
Series I. Lecture Notes, 1935-1984, inclusive
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This series consists of lectures delivered by professors and teaching assistants at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science from 1935-1984. These lecture notes document the content and variety of classes at the Institute and the way in which professors taught over time. Course notes are labeled with the instructor's last name and the title of the class. Lectures cover such topics as Introduction to Mathematical Analysis, Theory of Functions of a Real Variable, and Mathematical Methods of Population Biology, among many others.
Artin, Emil, 1938-1954, inclusive
Bers, Lipman, 1951-1959, inclusive
Bers, Lipman, et al., 1952
Bohr, Harald, 1948
Busemann, Herbert, 1938-1939, inclusive
Chern, S. S., 1965
Courant, Richard, 1936-1953, inclusive
Courant, Richard with Appendix by Peter Lax, 1948
Courant, Richard, et al., 1949-1950, inclusive
Courant, Richard and Kurt O. Friedrichs, 1943
Courant, Richard, Kurt O. Friedrichs, and J. J., 1940-1946, inclusive
Davis, Constance, 1969-1972, inclusive
Davis, Martin, 1959-1977, inclusive
Duistermaat, J. J., 1973
Eckmann, B., 1947
Eckweiler, Howard J., et al., 1946
Eilenberg, S., 1948
Flanders, 1939
Friedman, Bernard, 1945-1957, inclusive
Friedman, Bernard, et al., 1950
Friedrichs, Kurt O., 1941-1973, inclusive
Friedrichs, Kurt O., et al., 1957
Fubini, G., 1941
Glimm, James, 1965
Grad, Harold, 1950-1954, inclusive
Greenberg, Philip J., 1973
Grishman, R., 1976
Grünbaum, F. Alberto, 1972
Harrison, Malcolm C., 1970-1971, inclusive
Hilton, Peter, 1967-1968, inclusive
Hopf, Heinz, 1946-1963, inclusive
Hoppensteadt, F. C., 1977
Hörmander, Lars, 1970
Humphreys, J. E., 1971
Isaacson, E., 1956-1957, inclusive
John, Fritz, 1946-1956, inclusive
Keller, H. B., circa 1968
Keller, Joseph B., 1949-1950, inclusive
Keller, Joseph B. and Stuart Antman, 1968
Kline, circa 1939-1940, inclusive
Lax, Anneli, 1965
Lax, Peter D., 1950-1963, inclusive
Lax, Peter D., Samuel Z. Burstein, and Anneli Lax, 1972
Lewis, Robert M. and Joseph B. Keller, 1963
Lubkin, Samuel, 1956
Manacher, Glenn K., 1971
Mullish, Henry, 1971
Mullish, Henry and Max Goldstein, 1973
Neumann, B. H., 1961-1962, inclusive
Nirenberg, Louis, 1948-1974, inclusive
Percus, J. K., 1967-1984, inclusive
Peskin, Charles S., 1975-1976, inclusive
Peters, Arthur, 1948
Problem Seminar, Mathematics 302, 1950
Rademacher, Hans, 1949-1951, inclusive
Rellich, Franz, 1950-1953, inclusive
Richtmyer, R. D., 1961-1964, inclusive
Robbins, H., 1940-1941, inclusive
Schwartz, Jack, 1957-1961, inclusive
Schwartz, Jacob T., 1959-1975, inclusive
Schwartz, Jacob T. and Melvin Hausner, 1964
Schwartz, Laurent, 1964
Shapiro, Harold N., 1948-1952, inclusive
Shapiro, H. S., 1961-1962, inclusive
Shaw, Philip, 1978
Shephard, R., 1947-1948, inclusive
Shiffman, M., circa 1946-1955, inclusive
Siegel, Carl L., 1945-1948, inclusive
Singer, 1975
Stoker, J. J., 1939-1964, inclusive
Stone, M. H., circa 1969
Takeuchi, circa 1976
Tamarkin, J. D. and Willy Feller, 1941
Ungar, Peter, 1959
Varadarajan, V. S., 1961-1962, inclusive
Varadhan, S. R. S., 1967-1974, inclusive
Veblen, Oswald and John von Neumann, 1935-1936, inclusive
Venkataratyudu, T., 1953
Wang, Chi-teh, 1948
Weber, E., 1941
Whitehead, Earl Glen, Jr., 1971-1972, inclusive
Series II. Report and Remarks, 1968-1972, inclusive
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This series reflects additional responsibilities of the professors and instructors at the Courant Institute, including providing reports to committees, such as the report from the Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Division to the Standing Committee, and remarks at events like the memorial service for Richard Courant and the birthday celebration for K. O. Friedrichs.
Magneto-Fluid Dynamics Division Report, 1968
"Richard Courant, 1888-1972: Remarks Delivered at the Memorial", 1972
"To K. O. Friedrichs on His Seventieth Birthday", undated, inclusive
Series III. Lectures at Other Institutions, 1912-1965, inclusive
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Scope and Contents
This series consists of lectures delivered by Courant professors and instructors at other institutions, the majority of which were given by Richard Courant at the University of Göttingen.