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Richard Courant

Richard Courant publishes mostly in Theoretical Computer Science, Geometry and Topology and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as History and Theory of Mathematics, Physics and Engineering Research Articles and Mathematics and Applications.

World rank
#8,962
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,315
of 358,040
Works
78
Citations
370
Citations per work
4.7

What does Richard Courant research?

Theoretical Computer Science: 18.3%Geometry and Topology: 12.7%Computational Mechanics: 12.7%Mathematical Physics: 9.9%other fields: 46.4%18%top field
Theoretical Computer Science18.3%Geometry and Topology12.7%Computational Mechanics12.7%Mathematical Physics9.9%other fields46.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Theoretical Computer Science18% of their works
  2. 2Geometry and Topology13% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics13% of their works
  4. 4Mathematical Physics10% of their works
  5. 5Applied Mathematics7% of their works
  6. 6Computational Theory and Mathematics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard Courant's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Historical Sources, Mathematics Education, Fluid Dynamics, Geometry, Hyperbolic, Renewable Energy, Generalized Functions and Infinite and Infinitesimal Numbers.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Historical Sources131 topic
  2. Mathematics Education131 topic
  3. Fluid Dynamics81 topic
  4. Geometry81 topic
  5. Hyperbolic81 topic
  6. Renewable Energy81 topic
  7. Generalized Functions41 topic
  8. Infinite and Infinitesimal Numbers41 topic
  9. Matrix Computations31 topic
  10. Numerical Linear Algebra31 topic
  11. Computing21 topic
  12. Geometric Modeling21 topic
  13. History21 topic
  14. Nanomaterials21 topic
  15. Point Processes21 topic
  16. Spatstat21 topic

Where does Richard Courant work?

Richard Courant's main affiliation in the publication record is New York University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard Courant have?

Science Explorer counts 78 works and 370 citations for Richard Courant, ranking #8,962 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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