Peter Lax
Also known as Peter David Lax
American mathematician of Hungarian origin (1926–2025)
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- Textbook of Acute Trauma Care
- Selected Papers I
- Selected Papers II
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- Person
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- Male
- Origin
- Hungary
- Active from
- 1986-08-06
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- P.U.M.A / Cassiopeia2006
- M.I.R.A.2006
- Blue Bird2007
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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.
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