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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Textbook of Acute Trauma Care
- Selected Papers I
- Selected Papers II
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Hungary
- Active from
- 1986-08-06
trance
Discography
- P.U.M.A / Cassiopeia2006
- M.I.R.A.2006
- Blue Bird2007
- Miquë2008
- Reborn2009
- Heliotrope2009
- Elysium2009
- Aurora2009
- Misgrey2009
- Spring / Hattori Hanzo2012
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 3
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
66h-index
- Works
- 321
- Cited by
- 32,972
Research areas
MathematicsComputer scienceMathematical analysisPure mathematicsPhysics
Most cited works
- On Upstream Differencing and Godunov-Type Schemes for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws1983 · 3,322 cit
- Integrals of nonlinear equations of evolution and solitary waves1968 · 3,108 cit
- Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws II1957 · 2,867 cit
- Systems of conservation laws1960 · 2,636 cit
- Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws and the Mathematical Theory of Shock Waves1973 · 1,954 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,945x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,538x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,174x
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Key facts
- Born
- Péter Dávid Lax , ( 1926-05-01 ) 1 May 1926, Budapest , Hungary
- Died
- 16 May 2025 (2025-05-16) (aged 99), New York City, U.S.
- Alma mater
- New York University ( BS , MS , PhD ) Texas A&M University University of New Mexico Stanford University
- Known for
- Lax equivalence theorem Lax pairs Lax–Milgram theorem Lax–Friedrichs method Lax–Wendroff method Lax–Wendroff theorem Beurling–Lax theorem HLLE solver Fourier integral operator
- Awards
- Lester R. Ford (1966) John von Neumann Prize (1968) Chauvenet Prize (1974) Norbert Wiener Prize (1975) National Medal of Science (1986) Wolf Prize (1987) Abel Prize (2005) Lomonosov Gold Medal (2013)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- Courant Institute
- Thesis
- Nonlinear System of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations in Two Independent Variables (1949)
- Doctoral advisor
- K. O. Friedrichs
- Doctoral students
- Steve Alpern Chen Li-an Gregory Beylkin Alexandre Chorin Charles Epstein Michael Ghil Ami Harten James (Mac) Hyman George Logemann Jeffrey Rauch Burton Wendroff
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Péter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Spouse
- Anneli Cahn Lax
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- New York University
- Employer
- Manhattan Project
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Participant in
- Manhattan Project
- Doctoral advisor
- Kurt Otto Friedrichs
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Image
- Peter Lax in Tokyo.jpg
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- Commons category
- Peter Lax
- date of birth
- 1926-05-01
- member of
- The Martians
- Erdős number
- 3
- archives at
- Computer History Museum
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- date of death
- 2025-05-16
- birth name
- Lax Péter Dávid
- name in native language
- Peter Lax
- cause of death
- cardiac amyloidosis
- manner of death
- natural causes
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