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Peter David Lax (born Lax Péter Dávid; 1 May 1926) is a Hungarian-born American mathematician and Abel Prize laureate working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. Lax has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Peter Lax (born May 1, 1926, Budapest, Hung.) is a Hungarian-born American mathematician awarded the 2005 Abel Prize “for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and applications of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions.”
Peter Lax is a Hungarian mathematician who works on scattering theory. View six larger pictures. Biography. Peter Lax was born into a Jewish family in Budapest. His mother was Klara Kornfeld and his father was Henry Lax who was a medical doctor.
Jul 15, 2020 · Among them is Peter Lax, a 94-year-old mathematics genius and retired professor at New York University, who at the time of the Trinity test was just a 19-year-old corporal stationed at Los...
Peter Lax is a Hungarian-born American mathematician. Lax and his family left Hungary for America in 1941, just days before Pearl Harbor. In 1944, Lax was drafted into the Army.
Peter D. Lax has been described as the most versatile mathematician of his generation. The impressive list above by no means states all of his achievements. His use of geometric optics to study the propagation of singularities inaugurated the theory of Fourier Integral Operators.
Mar 29, 2005 · In the world of modern mathematics, Dr. Peter D. Lax, professor emeritus at New York University, ranks among the giants. As a teenage refugee from the Nazis, he worked on the Manhattan...
Mar 29, 2005 · In the world of modern mathematics, Dr. Peter D. Lax, professor emeritus at New York University, ranks among the giants.
Peter David Lax (born 1 May 1926 in Budapest, Hungary) is a 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.
Peter Lax. Professor of Mathematics and former Director, Courant Institute, New York University. Member, CRPC External Advisory Committee. A renowned mathematician who considers himself both applied and theoretical in his approach, Peter Lax entered computing "on the ground floor," he noted.
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