Peter Lax
Mathematician, Academic
1926 –
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Who is Peter Lax?
Peter David Lax is an American mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He 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. Lax is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.
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- Born
- May 1, 1926
Budapest - Also known as
- Peter D Lax
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Hungarian people
- Nationality
- Hungary
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- New York University
- Stuyvesant High School
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- Employment
- New York University
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on July 23, 2013
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