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Peter Lax(1926–2025)

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Mathematics

Peter David Lax was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and Abel Prize laureate working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics.

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HungaryRoyal Air Force College Cranwell

Abel Prize (2005)Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1987)

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Major Awards

321

Publications

32,614

Citations

h-index

147

i10-index

101.6

Avg Citations/Paper

Awards & Recognition

Abel Prize New York University

2005

Wolf Prize in Mathematics NYU

1987

Most Cited Works

Top publications by citation count

Cancelled operations: a 7‐day cohort study of planned adult inpatient surgery in 245 UK National Health Service hospitals

British Journal of Anaesthesia(2018)

119

citations

Vectors and matrices

(2017)

citations

Generators of a Picard modular group in two complex dimensions

(2009)

citations

Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations

(2004)

174

citations

Conditions for the Construction of Multi-point Total Variation Diminishing Difference Schemes

(2002)

citations

My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös, by Bruce Schechter; The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth, by Paul Hoffman

Physics Today(1999)

citations

Recent advances in partial differential equations, Venice 1996 : proceedings of a conference in honor of the 70th birthdays of Peter D. Lax and Louis Nirenberg : June 10-14, 1996, Venice, Italy

(1998)

citations

Translation representations for automorphic solutions of the wave equation in non-Euclidean spaces; the case of finite volume

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society(1985)

citations

A new kind of inequality for Bessel functions

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications(1973)

citations

#10

Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations

American Mathematical Monthly(1965)

citations

Recent Publications

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Cancelled operations: a 7‐day cohort study of planned adult inpatient surgery in 245 UK National Health Service hospitals

British Journal of Anaesthesia2018

119citations

Open Access

Vectors and matrices

2017

0citations

Generators of a Picard modular group in two complex dimensions

2009

21citations

Open Access

Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations

2004

174citations

Conditions for the Construction of Multi-point Total Variation Diminishing Difference Schemes

2002

10citations

Open Access

My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös, by Bruce Schechter; The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth, by Paul Hoffman

Physics Today1999

0citations

Recent advances in partial differential equations, Venice 1996 : proceedings of a conference in honor of the 70th birthdays of Peter D. Lax and Louis Nirenberg : June 10-14, 1996, Venice, Italy

1998

0citations

Translation representations for automorphic solutions of the wave equation in non-Euclidean spaces; the case of finite volume

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society1985

0citations

Open Access

A new kind of inequality for Bessel functions

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications1973

12citations

Open Access

Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations

American Mathematical Monthly1965

5citations

External Profiles

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Publications & Citations

Publications & Citations

Career Path

Award progression over time

1987

Wolf Prize in Mathematics NYU

2005

Abel Prize New York University

Apex Elite Prestigious

Co-winners

Shared the same award in the same year

Kiyosi Itô

Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1987)

Education

New York University(doctorate)

Stuyvesant High School

Doctoral Advisors

Robert E. KalabaLinus FoyGideon PeyserYiorgos SmyrlisGui-Qiang ChenReuben HershAlexandre ChorinAmi HartenBarbara KeyfitzBurton WendroffCharles EpsteinMac HymanSteve AlpernJeffrey RauchGeorge LogemannMichael GhilGregory BeylkinLucien W. NeustadtMilton HalemC. David LevermoreHomer Franklin WalkerDonald Aubrey Quarles, Jr.Stephanos VenakidesShlomo EngelbergSpyridon KamvissisPeter TreuenfelsSusan HahnJames MoellerKennard ReedNorman RushfieldHector O. FattoriniArnold LapidusCharles I. GoldsteinJulian PrinceJames La VitaMelvyn CimentPorter GerberLi-an Laurence ChenGary Spencer DeemDonald IsaacBlair K. SwartzGray JenningsWilliam GoodhueCarlos A. de MouraSatish AnjilvelKayyunnapara JosephAndrew WinklerSebastian NoelleFei-Ran TianYahan YangBrian HayesMin ChenMikhail TeytelMilton Edward RoseGeorge PimbleyKurt Otto Friedrichs