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Peter Lax
Lax Péter Dávid
American mathematician of Hungarian origin (1926–2025).
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Occupation
Mathematician
University Teacher
Field of Work
Partial Differential Equation
Applied Mathematics
Mathematics
Place of Birth
Budapest
Country of Citizenship
Hungary
United States
Date of Birth
5/1/1926
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Educated At
Stuyvesant High School
(1941 - 1943)
New York University
(1943 - 1949)
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Doctoral Advisor
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New York University
Manhattan Project
(1945 - 1946)
End Time
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1946
Start Time
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1945
Manhattan Project
(1950 - 1951)
End Time
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1951
Start Time
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1950
Peter
Language of Work or Name
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English
Péter
Language of Work or Name
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Hungarian
French Academy of Sciences
(1981 - )
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Foreign Member
Start Time
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1981
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
National Academy of Sciences
(1970 - )
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Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
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1970
Academy of Sciences of the USSR
(1988 - )
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Foreign Member
Start Time
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1988
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Russian Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
(2009 - )
Subject Has Role
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Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Start Time
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2009
American Mathematical Society
(11/1/2012 - )
Subject Has Role
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Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Start Time
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11/1/2012
The Martians
István Gazda
Kinship to Subject
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Nephew
Kurt Otto Friedrichs
Computer History Museum
English
Hungarian
Male
Manhattan Project
Obálky Knih
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Lax
Anneli Cahn Lax
(1948 - 1999)
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Death of Subject's Spouse
End Time
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1999
Start Time
:
1948
Director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
(1972 - 1980)
Replaces
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Louis Nirenberg
Replaced By
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Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan
End Time
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1980
Start Time
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1972
Lax Equivalence Theorem
Beurling–Lax Theorem
Babuška–Lax–Milgram Theorem
Lions–Lax–Milgram Theorem
Lax–Wendroff Theorem
Lax–Wendroff Method
Lax–Friedrichs Method
Lax Natural Transformation
Lax Functor
Print Collection
Location
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New York Public Library Main Branch
Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards
(1966)
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1966
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1973
Chauvenet Prize
(1974)
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1974
Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics
(1975)
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1975
Doctor Honoris Causa From the Pierre and Marie Curie University
(1979)
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1979
National Medal of Science
(1986)
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1986
Wolf Prize in Mathematics
(1987)
Object Named As
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for his outstanding contributions to many areas of analysis and applied mathematics.
Award Rationale
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for his outstanding contributions to many areas of analysis and applied mathematics.
Country of Citizenship
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United States
Point in Time
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1987
Leroy P. Steele Prize
(1992)
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1992
Honorary Doctor of the Peking University
(1993)
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1993
Abel Prize
(2005)
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2005
Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
(2007)
Point in Time
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2007
Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
(2009)
Subject Named As
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Peter D. Lax
Award Rationale
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For contributions to conservation laws, scattering theory, integrable systems, and numerical analysis.
Point in Time
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2009
Great Immigrants Award
(2009)
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2009
Lomonosov Gold Medal
(2013)
Point in Time
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2013
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
(2013)
Point in Time
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2013
Announcement Date
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11/1/2012
5/16/2025
Age of Subject at Event
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99 years old
Lax Péter Dávid
Peter Lax
Manhattan
Cardiac Amyloidosis
Natural Causes
Hungarian
Country
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Kingdom of Hungary
End Time
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1943
Start Time
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1941
Academic Degree
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Doctorate
End Time
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1949
Start Time
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1943
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