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Peter Lax
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American mathematician of Hungarian origin (1926–2025)
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Peter Lax is indexed among the 29 entries in Vinony's Abel Prize collection. It also appears in National Medal of Science.
Within Vinony's link graph, Peter Lax is referenced by 714 other articles, and connects out to supercomputer, New York University and John G. Thompson.
It sits within the topics 1926 births, 2025 deaths and 20th-century American academics.
Its subject is documented across 38 Wikipedia language editions.
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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Categories
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