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Peter David Lax
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Peter Lax in Tokyo, 1969
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| Born | 1 May 1926 |
| 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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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.
Lax is of Jewish descent.
- Peter Lax at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J; Edmund F. Robertson "Peter Lax". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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