Professor Richard Courant, former director of the Mathematical Institute of the University of Goettingen, Germany, has been appointed visiting professor of mathematics at New York University, according to announcement yesterday by secretary Harold O, Voorhis.
It was due to the initiative of Dr. Courant, whose present appointment was made possible by grants from the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars and by the Rockefeller Foundation, that the latter gave the Institute the building which, until the advent of the Hitler government, seemed to insure a permanent home to the fine tradition of Goettingen mathematics.
Dr. Courant has been visiting professor at Cambridge University, England, during his past year’s enforced “leave of absence.”
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