Peter Lax
Peter Lax | |
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 Peter Lax in Tokyo, 1969 | |
| Born | Peter David Lax 1 May 1926 |
| Died | 16 May 2025 (aged 99) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Stuyvesant High School Courant Institute |
| Known for | Lax–Wendroff method Lax equivalence theorem Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem Lax pairs |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Courant Institute |
| Thesis | Nonlinear System of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations in Two Independent Variables (1949) |
| Doctoral advisor | K. O. Friedrichs |
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Peter David Lax (1 May 1926 – 16 May 2025) was an American mathematician. He was known for his works in integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific computing, among other fields. Lax was listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.
Lax was of Jewish descent.
Lax died of cardiac amyloidosis at his New York City home on 16 May 2025 at the age of 99.
References
- ↑ Thomson ISI. "Lax, Peter D., ISI Highly Cited Researchers". Archived from the original on 4 March 2006. Retrieved 20 June 2009.
- ↑ More Mathematical People, "Peter D. Lax". Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Constance Reid. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1990
- ↑ Barany, Michael J.; Shields, Brit (16 May 2025), "Peter Lax, Pre-eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 99", The New York Times
Other websites
- Peter Lax at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Peter Lax", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- Elements from his contributions to mathematics. Popularised presentation of Peter Lax by Helge Holden, published on the Abel Prize website.
- Abel Prize press release and biography
- Dreifus, C. (29 March 2005). "A Conversation with Peter Lax: From Budapest to Los Alamos, a Life in Mathematics". New York Times.
- Raussen, Martin; Christian Skau (February 2006). "Interview with Peter D. Lax" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 53 (2): 223–9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-09. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
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