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Peter Lax
- Budapest: May 1, 1926 celebration
- Manhattan: May 16, 2025 celebration


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Peter Lax -
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Hungary, United States -
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Peter Lax -
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Lax Péter Dávid -
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celebration Date of birth
Budapest: May 1, 1926 -
deceased Rest in Peace
Manhattan: May 16, 2025 -
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engineering Field of Work
- mathematics
- applied mathematics
- partial differential equation
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school Education
- Stuyvesant High School
- New York University
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- Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009)
- honorary doctor of the Peking University (1993)
- Leroy P. Steele Prize (1992)
- Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards (1973)
- Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards (1966)
- Lomonosov Gold Medal (2013)
- National Medal of Science (1986)
- Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1987)
- Chauvenet Prize (1974)
- Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics (1975)
- Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (2007)
- Abel Prize (2005)
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
- doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (1979)
- Great Immigrants Award (2009)
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social_leaderboard Notable Works
- Lax equivalence theorem
- Lax–Wendroff method
- Lions–Lax–Milgram theorem
- Beurling–Lax theorem
- Lax–Wendroff theorem
- Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem
- Lax–Friedrichs method
- lax functor
- lax natural transformation
- American mathematician of Hungarian origin | Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009), honorary doctor of the Peking University