Courant

Since 1963, Indian-born Srinivasa Varadhan has been teaching and conducting research at New York University's prestigious Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, in New York City. This past May, Varadhan won one of mathematics' top honors, the 900-thousand dollar Abel Prize, for his pioneering research in probability theory.

a. 1699, Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, Heads designed for an essay on conversation It is harder, in that, to dance a courant well than a jig.

a classical lion courant