Peter Lax
American mathematician of Hungarian origin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter David Lax (born 1 May 1926) is an American mathematician. He is known for his works in integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific computing, among other fields. Lax is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.[1]
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Born | (1926-05-01) 1 May 1926 (age 98) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Stuyvesant High School Courant Institute |
Known for | Lax–Wendroff method Lax equivalence theorem Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem Lax pairs |
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Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Courant Institute |
Thesis | Nonlinear System of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations in Two Independent Variables (1949) |
Doctoral advisor | K. O. Friedrichs |
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