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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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Article · 中文
拉克斯·彼得（匈牙利語：Lax Péter，1926年5月1日－），全名拉克斯·彼得·达维德（匈牙利語：Lax Péter Dávid，英語：Peter David Lax），匈牙利裔美国数学家，參與了曼哈頓計畫。研究的领域与成就主要有、流体动力学和激波、孤波物理学、双曲守恒律（hyperbolic conservation laws），以及数学与计算科学等领域。 他被列為。
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