Mathematician:Peter David Lax

Mathematician
Hungarian-born American mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics.

Made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific computing, among other fields.

Nationality
Hungarian-American

History

 * Born: 1 May 1926 in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary

Theorems and Definitions

 * Lax-Wendroff Method (with )
 * Lax Equivalence Theorem
 * Lax-Milgram Theorem (with )
 * Babuška-Lax-Milgram Theorem (with and )
 * Lions-Lax-Milgram Theorem (with and )
 * Lax Pair

Publications

 * 1970: Decay of Solutions of Systems of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws (with )
 * 1979: Calculus with Applications and Computing (with and )
 * 1989: Scattering Theory (with )
 * 1987: Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws and the Mathematical Theory of Shock Waves
 * 1996: Recent Mathematical Methods in Nonlinear Wave Propagation (with, , and )
 * 2001: Scattering Theory for Automorphic Functions (with )
 * 2002:
 * 2006: Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
 * 2007: Linear Algebra and Its Applications (2nd ed.)
 * 2012: Complex Proofs of Real Theorems (with )
 * 2012: Complex Proofs of Real Theorems (with )

Also known as
His name at birth, in the Hungarian style, was Lax Péter Dávid.