Peter Lax

Peter David Lax
Peter David Lax
	Lax in 1969
Born	Lax Péter Dávid; 1 May 1926; Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Stuyvesant High School ; Courant Institute
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);
	Scientific career
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; Gregory Beylkin; Alexandre Chorin; Charles Epstein; Michael Ghil; Ami Harten; James (Mac) Hyman; George Logemann; Jeffrey Rauch; Burton Wendroff;

Peter David Lax (born Lax Péter Dávid; 1 May 1926) is a Hungarian-born American mathematician and Abel Prize laureate working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics.

Lax has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific computing, among other fields.

In a 1958 paper Lax stated a conjecture about matrix representations for third order hyperbolic polynomials which remained unproven for over four decades. Interest in the "Lax conjecture" grew as mathematicians working in several different areas recognized the importance of its implications in their field, until it was finally proven to be true in 2003.

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