Hilbert-Courant

I am very pleased that my books about David Hilbert, published in 1970, and Richard Courant, published in 1976, are now being issued by Springer­ Verlag in a single volume. I have always felt that they belonged together, Courant being, as I have written, the natural and necessary sequel to Hilbert­ the rest of the story. To make the two volumes more compatible when published as one, we have combined and brought up to date the indexes of names and dates. U nfortu­ nately we have had to omit Hermann Weyl’s article on ”David Hilbert and his mathematical work,” but the interested reader can always find it in the hard­ back edition of Hilbert and in Weyl’s collected papers. At the request of a number of readers we have included a listing of all of Hilbert’s famous Paris problems. It was, of course, inevitable that we would give the resulting joint volume the title Hilbert-Courant.