Abstract

The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS) 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. This collection consists of sample examinations for entry-level mathematics course offered by the Courant Institute. The examinations date from 1960-2004, and include courses in advanced calculus, complex variables, linear algebra, real analysis, mechanics, statistics, and basic algorithms. The sample examinations were available students for in-library-use at the CIMS Library.