Peter Lax Scientist

Peter David Lax (born 1 May 1926) is an American mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific computing, among other fields. Lax is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.

Personal facts

Peter Lax
Birth dateMay 01, 1926
Birth place
Hungary , Budapest , Kingdom of Hungary
Nationality
United States
Education
Stuyvesant High School
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Known for
Lax pair
Lax equivalence theorem
Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem
Lax–Wendroff method

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Scientist

doctoral advisor
Kurt Otto Friedrichs
doctoral student
Field of study
Mathematics

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External resources

  1. http://www.abelprisen.no/en/prisvinnere/2005/documents/abelprize_2005_EN.pdf
  2. http://www.abelprisen.no/en/prisvinnere/2005/documents/popular2005eng9.pdf
  3. http://www.ams.org/notices/200602/comm-lax.pdf
  4. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/science/29conv.html?_r=0&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all&position=
  5. http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-22925-6
  6. http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-22926-3