Peter Lax
American mathematician of Hungarian origin (1926–2025)
Also known as Peter David Lax
- Born
- May 1, 1926
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Sources- 1.Stated in MacTutor History of Mathematics archiveRetrieved 2017-08-22
- 2.Stated in SNACRetrieved 2017-10-09
- 3.Stated in Encyclopædia Britannica OnlineRetrieved 2017-10-09
- 4.Stated in Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
- May 1, 1926
- Died
- May 16, 2025
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Sources- 1.“Peter Lax, Pre-eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 99”nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/peter-lax-dead.htmlRetrieved 2025-05-17
- May 16, 2025
- Birthplace
- Place of death
- Manhattan
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Sources- 1.Stated in The New York Times“Peter Lax, Pre-eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 99”nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/peter-lax-dead.htmlRetrieved 2025-05-17
- Manhattan
- Citizenship
- Occupation
- Positions held
- Education
- Stuyvesant High School(1941–1943)
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Sources- 1.“Academic Genealogy Of Mathematicians”books.google.hu/books?id=vYlIDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA451&lpg=PA451&dq=%22Stuyvesant+High+School%22+Lax+P%C3%A9ter&source=bl&ots=jRGbuSsEe4&sig=ACfU3U0_0-54b1Ya8wwZkoK89_n9pQmPqg&hl=hu&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9mPXVzYPgAhUOy6QKHZEXAIIQ6AEwC3oECBMQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Stuyvesant%20High%20School%22%20Lax%20P%C3%A9ter&f=false
- , New York University(1943–1949)
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- Stuyvesant High School(1941–1943)
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- Field of work
- partial differential equation
- applied mathematics
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Sources- 1.Stated in Personal Authority Wikibase of the Czech RepublicRetrieved 2021-04-30
- mathematics
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-24
- Member of
- French Academy of Sciences(since 1981) subject has role: foreign member
- Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- National Academy of Sciences(since 1970) subject has role: Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
- Academy of Sciences of the USSR(since 1988) subject has role: foreign member
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Sources- 1.“Лакс Питер (Петер) Дэвид”ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-51006.ln-ru.dl-.pr-inf.uk-12
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics(since 2009) subject has role: Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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Sources- 1.siam.org/prizes-recognition/fellows-program/all-siam-fellowsRetrieved 2021-07-17
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- American Mathematical Society(since 2012) subject has role: Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
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Sources- 1.“2013 Class of Fellows of the AMS”ams.org/fellows_by_year.cgi?year=2013Retrieved 2022-11-24
- 2.“American Mathematical Society Names Initial Class of Fellows of the AMS”ams.org/news?news_id=1680Retrieved 2022-11-24
- The Martians
- Relative
- István Gazda kinship to subject: nephew
- Archives at
- Computer History Museum
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Sources- 1.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102746803Retrieved 2016-12-22
- Computer History Museum
- Sex or gender
- male
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Sources- 1.Stated in BnF authoritiesRetrieved 2015-10-10
- 2.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2024-07-16
- male
- Doctoral student
- Alexandre Chorin(until 1966)
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- Ami Harten(until 1974)
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- Burton Wendroff(until 1958)
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- Charles Epstein(until 1983)
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- Steve Alpern(until 1973)
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- Mac Hyman(until 1976)
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- Lucien W. Neustadt(until 1960)
- Michael Ghil(until 1975)
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Sources- 1.“Professor Michael Ghil”imperial.ac.uk/mathematics/research/opportunities/nelder-visiting-fellowships/fellows/professor-michael-ghil/Retrieved 2020-11-23
- 2.Stated in Academia.eduens.academia.edu/MichaelGhilRetrieved 2020-11-23
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- Gui-Qiang Chen(until 1987)
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- Reuben Hersh(until 1962)
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- Barbara Keyfitz(until 1970)
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- Jeffrey Rauch(until 1971)
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- George Logemann(until 1965)
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- Gregory Beylkin(until 1982)
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- Milton Halem(until 1968)
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- C. David Levermore(until 1982)
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- Homer Franklin Walker(until 1970)
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- Donald Aubrey Quarles, Jr.(until 1964)
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- Stephanos Venakides(until 1982)
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- Shlomo Engelberg(until 1994)
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- Spyridon Kamvissis(until 1991)
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- Susan Hahn(until 1957)
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- James Moeller(until 1961)
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- Peter Treuenfels(until 1957)
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- Hector O. Fattorini(until 1965)
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- Kennard Reed(until 1963)
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- Norman Rushfield(until 1963)
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- Charles I. Goldstein(until 1967)
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- Julian Prince(until 1967)
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- Arnold Lapidus(until 1967)
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- James La Vita(until 1967)
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- Melvyn Ciment(until 1968)
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- Li-an Laurence Chen(until 1968)
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- Gary Spencer Deem(until 1969)
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- Porter Gerber(until 1968)
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- Gray Jennings(until 1971)
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- Donald Isaac(until 1970)
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- Blair K. Swartz(until 1970)
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- Carlos A. de Moura(until 1976)
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- Satish Anjilvel(until 1984)
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- William Goodhue(until 1971)
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- Andrew Winkler(until 1987)
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- Min Chen(1996)
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- Mikhail Teytel(1996)
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- Brian Hayes(1994)
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- Fei-Ran Tian(1991)
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- Yahan Yang(1991)
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- Sebastian Noelle(1990)
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- Yiorgos Smyrlis(1989)
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- Kayyunnapara Joseph(1987)
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- Linus Foy(1962)
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- Robert E. Kalaba(1958)
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- George Pimbley(1957)
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- Gideon Peyser(1957)
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- Milton Edward Rose(1953)
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- Alexandre Chorin(until 1966)
- Copyright status as a creator
- works protected by copyrights applies to jurisdiction: countries with longer than 50 years pma
- Awards
- Lomonosov Gold Medal(2013)
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Sources- 1.“Большая золотая медаль РАН имени М.В. Ломоносова”ras.ru/win/db/award_dsc.asp?P=id-1.ln-ruRetrieved 2025-05-17
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society(2013) announcement date: November 1, 2012
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Sources- 1.“2013 Class of Fellows of the AMS”ams.org/fellows_by_year.cgi?year=2013Retrieved 2022-11-24
- 2.“American Mathematical Society Names Initial Class of Fellows of the AMS”ams.org/news?news_id=1680Retrieved 2022-11-24
- Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics(2009) subject named as: Peter D. Lax · award rationale: For contributions to conservation laws, scattering theory, integrable systems, and numerical analysis.
- Great Immigrants Award(2009)
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Sources- 1.“Peter D. Lax”carnegie.org/awards/honoree/peter-d-lax/Retrieved 2025-05-17
- Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship(2007)
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- Abel Prize(2005)
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Sources- 1.“2005: Peter D. Lax”abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2005Retrieved 2025-05-25
- honorary doctor of the Peking University(1993)
- Leroy P. Steele Prize(1992)
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Sources- 1.Stated in MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 2.“Leroy P. Steele Prize (1970 - 1992)”ams.org/prizes-awards/paview.cgi?parent_id=28Retrieved 2025-05-17
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- Wolf Prize in Mathematics(1987) object named as: for his outstanding contributions to many areas of analysis and applied mathematics. · award rationale: for his outstanding contributions to many areas of analysis and applied mathematics. · citizenship: United States
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- National Medal of Science(1986)
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- doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University(1979)
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Sources- 1.“Les Docteurs honoris causa de l'UPMC - De 1975 à 2003”web.archive.org/web/20170705052457/http://upmc.fr/fr/universite/histoire_et_personnalites/les_docteurs_honoris_causa/les_docteurs_honoris_causa_de_1975_a_2003.htmlRetrieved 2025-05-17
- Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics(1975)
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- Chauvenet Prize(1974)
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- Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards(1966)
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- Lomonosov Gold Medal(2013)
- Birth name
- Lax Péter Dávid
- Name in native language
- Peter Lax
- Cause of death
- cardiac amyloidosis
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Sources- 1.Stated in The New York Times“Peter Lax, Pre-eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 99”nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/peter-lax-dead.htmlRetrieved 2025-05-17
- cardiac amyloidosis
- Manner of death
- natural causes
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Sources- 1.Stated in The New York Times“Peter Lax, Pre-eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 99”nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/peter-lax-dead.htmlRetrieved 2025-05-17
- natural causes
On other databases
78 identifiers linking Peter Lax across the web's reference databases
- Academic Tree ID688562
- Archive Site Trinity College Cambridge IDlax-peter-david-b-1926-mathematician
- Atomic Heritage Foundation IDpeter-lax
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- Babelio author ID10891
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID12279914k
- BIBSYS ID90135846
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDlax-peter-david
- Canadiana Name Authority IDncf12091574
- CANTIC ID981058512442906706
- CiNii Research ID1140563741817157120
- CONOR.SI ID84030051
- CTHS person ID125206
- Cyprus University of Technology ID31368
- DBLP author ID40/3632
- DDB person (GND) ID130442437
- De Agostini IDLax,+Peter+David
- Deutsche Biographie (GND) ID130442437
- Dimensions author ID01313767540.36
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDbiography/Peter-Lax
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDpeter-lax
- FactGrid item IDQ1350864
- FAST ID13087
- Freebase ID/m/02g8tk
- French Academy of Sciences member IDpeter-lax
- Geni profile ID5075606660470080434
- GND ID130442437
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDPeter_Lax
- HAS member ID19231
- Hungarian National Namespace person ID (new)653913
- IdRef ID031618642
- ISNI0000000108849568
- J9U entity ID987007593165405171
- Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID130442437
- KBR person ID14477868
- Lex IDPeter_David_Lax
- Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID5825
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn50038406
- MacTutor biography IDLax_Peter
- Mathematics Genealogy Project ID13415
- MR Author ID111160
- NACSIS-CAT author IDDA00732315
- National Academy of Sciences member ID53419
- National Library of Chile ID000280121
- National Library of Korea IDKAC202314745
- National Library of Latvia ID000173206
- National Library of Lithuania IDLNB:CtBd;=Bt
- National Library of Poland MMS ID9810556467805606
- National Virtual Library of India ID155555
- Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID068451741
- NDL Authority ID00447045
- NL CR AUT IDmzk2011622323
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- NSZL name authority ID684980
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- Obálky knih IDmzk2011622323
- Oberwolfach mathematician ID2458
- Open Library IDOL539780A
- PIM authority IDPIM100057
- Prabook ID1398310
- Regensburg ClassificationSF 5040
- RERO ID (legacy)A003502054
- Russian Academy of Sciences person ID51006
- SBN author IDCFIV036537
- Scopus author ID7004341430
- SHARE Catalogue author ID42253
- SNAC ARK IDw6b60tx1
- Treccani's Enciclopedia della Matematica IDlax
- Union List of Artist Names ID500524601
- University of Barcelona authority ID981058512442906706
- University of Barcelona authority ID (former scheme)a1273996
- Unz Review author IDLaxPeterD
- VIAF cluster ID32058392
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJqw6VwKGq3qgh9v6VhJXd
- Yale LUX IDperson/73a58598-68b0-49a2-8445-fd7a9f45e86e
- ZbMATH author IDlax.peter-d