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Peter Lax
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American mathematician of Hungarian origin (1926–2025)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Textbook of Acute Trauma Care
- Selected Papers I
- Selected Papers II
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Hungary
- Active from
- 1986-08-06
Discography
- P.U.M.A / Cassiopeia2006
- M.I.R.A.2006
- Blue Bird2007
- Miquë2008
- Reborn2009
- Heliotrope2009
- Elysium2009
- Aurora2009
- Misgrey2009
- Spring / Hattori Hanzo2012
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 3
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 321
- Cited by
- 32,972
Research areas
Most cited works
- On Upstream Differencing and Godunov-Type Schemes for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws1983 · 3,322 cit
- Integrals of nonlinear equations of evolution and solitary waves1968 · 3,108 cit
- Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws II1957 · 2,867 cit
- Systems of conservation laws1960 · 2,636 cit
- Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws and the Mathematical Theory of Shock Waves1973 · 1,954 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 85,069x
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,237x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,749x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,846x
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,323x
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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
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- Peter Lax in Tokyo.jpg
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- Commons category
- Peter Lax
- date of birth
- 1926-05-01
- Erdős number
- 3
- date of death
- 2025-05-16
- birth name
- Lax Péter Dávid
- name in native language
- Peter Lax
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Article
Peter David Lax (1 May 1926 – 16 May 2025) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and Abel Prize laureate working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics.
Lax 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.