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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 ...
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.
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.
Peter Lax: Abstract Phragmen-Lindelöf theorem & Saint Venant’s principle. Peter Lax Abel Prize lecture. Programme available in the YouTube description.
Peter David Lax. President 1979–1980. Ph.D. New York University, New York, 1949. Lax was born in Hungary, and received his A.B. (1947) and Ph.D. (1949) from New York University.
Professor, Mathematics Dept. Department of Mathematics Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University.
May 13, 2005 · Peter D. Lax, an emeritus professor at New York University’s esteemed Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and an alumnus of NYU who earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees here, was today awarded the Abel Prize in mathematics by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for “his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and ...
ual biography of a famous living mathematician. Born in Hungary in 1926, Peter Lax escaped the Holocaust at the time of the J. panese attack at Pearl Harbor in December 1941. He soon rose through the ranks of American mathematicians; the .
Peter Lax speaks with Phil Colella about a range of topics from his distinguished career in computing and numerical analysis. During World War II, Lax spent a year at Los Alamos, which he describes as a nearly ideal intellectual environment.
