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	Peter Lax
		A renowned mathematician who considers himself both applied and theoretical in his approach, Peter Lax entered computing "on the ground floor," he noted.
		Lax has spent the remainder of his professional career at NYU, making significant contributions to both mathematics and computing.
		"The Lax Panel, which I chaired, recommended that the NSF rectify this grave omission, leading to the establishment of the NSF's five national computing centers as well as the NSFnet." This development helped to spur the birth of the HPCC program in general and the CRPC in particular.
	www.crpc.rice.edu /newsletters/jan95/eac.lax.html (436 words)

	Peter Lax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter David Lax (born May 1, 1926) is a highly-respected mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics.
		Lax was born in Budapest, Hungary and moved with his parents to the United States in 1941.
		Lax holds a faculty position in the Department of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Lax (209 words)

	Nuclear pioneer lands prestigious math prize \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Peter Lax, in Oslo to receive the $980,000 Abel Prize for mathematics, said that working as a 19-year-old student on the Manhattan Project in 1945 among top scientists felt like living in a science fiction book.
		Lax, of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, won fame for work on equations that have had applications ranging from how to pump more oil from underground reservoirs to improved aerodynamics for planes.
		Lax, 79, won the prize "for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions," the prize citation said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050525/news_1n25lax.html (445 words)

	AMS Presidents: A Timeline
		Lax was born in Hungary, and received his A.B. (1947) and Ph.D. (1949) from New York University.
		Since then he has spent his career at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, and in 2005 was awarded the prestigious international Abel Prize for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions.
		Lax is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
	www.ams.org /ams/45-lax.html (121 words)

	Before the Department of Energy There Was the Manhattan Project
		Peter Lax, asked by the conference organizers (see accompanying article) for a bit of DOE history, treated the audience to a glimpse of the time thirty years before the U.S. had a Department of Energy.
		Even earlier, there was the Manhattan Project; Lax, in Los Alamos in 1945, was part of that effort, as was his personal hero, John von Neumann, on whom he chose to focus his remarks in Berkeley.
		Other prominent generals appear in the photograph, Lax said, including Lesley Groves, head of the Manhattan Project and a member of the Remington Rand board (second from right), along with Richard Courant (to Rand's left in the photo) and a young Peter Lax (far left).
	www.siam.org /siamnews/05-01/manhattan.htm (454 words)

	Compressible Computational Fluids Mechanics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The distinguished and prolific applied mathematician Professor Peter Lax of the Courant Institute at New York University was the Visiting Scholar at James Madison University on Thursday March 20 at 7 p.m.
		Peter also give a colloquium to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics on Thursday March 20 at 3:30 p.m.
		Peter Lax has made many scientific discoveries through the use of mathematics and computing.
	www.math.jmu.edu /~jim/peterlax.html (186 words)

	NYU > Office of Public Affairs > NYU Mathematician Peter Lax Named Winner of Abel Prize
		Peter has led mathematics at NYU for half a century, and we are delighted that his work and contributions have been so recognized.”
		Professor Lax — who was named to the National Academy of Sciences in 1962 — is one of the most prominent mathematicians of the second-half of the 20th Century.
		The Academy said, “Peter D. Lax has been described as the most versatile mathematician of his generation Peter D. Lax stands out in joining together pure and applied mathematics, combining a deep understanding of analysis with an extraordinary capacity to find unifying concepts.
	www.nyu.edu /public.affairs/releases/detail/282 (548 words)

	The New York Times > Science > A Conversation With Peter Lax: From Budapest to Los Alamos, a Life in Mathematics
		Peter D. Lax's work often straddles the territory where theoretical mathematics and applied physics meet.
		As a young mathematician, he was a protégé of John von Neumann, a father of modern computing.
		This month, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced that Dr. Lax, who is 78, would receive its third Abel Prize, accompanied by $980,000, an honor created to compensate for the absence of a mathematics category among the Nobel Prizes.
	www.math.toronto.edu /mpugh/Teaching/Mat357/Peter_Lax_interview.htm (1299 words)

	Peter Lax
		A renowned mathematician who considers himself both applied and theoretical in his approach, Peter Lax entered computing "on the ground floor," he noted.
		Lax has spent the remainder of his professional career at NYU, making significant contributions to both mathematics and computing.
		"The Lax Panel, which I chaired, recommended that the NSF rectify this grave omission, leading to the establishment of the NSF's five national computing centers as well as the NSFnet." This development helped to spur the birth of the HPCC program in general and the CRPC in particular.
	nhse.cs.rice.edu /CRPC/newsletters/jan95/eac.lax.html (436 words)

	The Abel Prize
		Peter D. Lax gave his Abel Lecture at the University of Oslo on 25 May. Three other prominent mathematicians gave honourary lectures.
		Peter D. Lax' speech in the University Aula
		If you wish to be present at the Award Ceremony in the University Aula on the 24th of May or participate in the Abel Lectures at the University of Oslo on the 25th of May, please send an e-mail to guests@abelprisen.no to receive an invitation card.
	www.abelprisen.no /en (545 words)

	Ghost Signs - Functional Analysis (Pure and Applied Mathematics: A Wiley-Interscience Series of Texts, Monographs and ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Comment: Peter D Lax is one of the great mathematicians of the 2nd half of the 20th century.
		Peter Lax has himself,-- alone and with others, shaped some of greatest successes of the period, right up to the present.
		At the end of each chapter P Lax ofers personal recollections;-- little known stories of how several of the pioneers in the subject have been victims,- in the 30ties and the 40ties, of Nazi atrocities.
	www.ghostsigns.com /item-0471556041.htm (331 words)

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		Peter had heard this before, and so he ate the rest of his dinner in silence.
		As soon as Lax was standing above him, he fired both balls of impact webbing, one into Lax's head, the other to an area on his body which should have put him out of the fight for while.
		Lax had done a good job, and it was hurting.
	www.angelfire.com /comics/comicbookuniverse/dcm/spmann01.htm (2479 words)

	UCLA Distinguished Lecturers
		A matrix is degenerate when its discriminant is zero; we show that the discriminant of symmetric matrices can be written as a sum of squares.
		Peter Lax is one of the greatest figures in pure and applied mathematics of our times.
		His work has been seminal and extraordinarily influential in almost all areas of mathematics and its applications where differential equations are involved, such as integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and so on.
	www.math.ucla.edu /dls/2003/lax.html (206 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Abel prize awarded to Peter Lax
		Professor Lax was presented with the award by the Crown Prince Regent of Norway at Oslo University on Tuesday.
		Professor Lax grew up in Hungary but left with his parents and brother for the US in November 1941.
		Lax was also a protégé of John von Neumann, one of the fathers of modern computing.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/sci/tech/4573225.stm (441 words)

	Peter Lax Receives 2005 Abel Prize
		Lax was accompanied by Ragnar Winther, the chairman of the Abel board.
		Before the Abel Prize Award Ceremony Peter D. Lax was received in audience at the Royal Palace by HM the Queen and HRH the Crown Prince Regent.
		Lax thanked the Norwegian people for creating the Abel Prize, "which gives visibility to mathematics that the subject sorely needs...Occasions like this are a window of opportunity to give the public a glimpse of the power, importance, and sweep of mathematics." Read Lax's acceptance speech to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
	www.ams.org /ams/Abel-lax-lectures05.html (369 words)

	Alibris: Peter Lax
		A renowned mathematician who considers himself both applied and theoretical in his approach, Peter Lax has spent most of his professional career at NYU, making significant contributions to both mathematics and computing.
		by Lax, Peter D. Includes sections on the spectral resolution and spectral representation of self adjoint operators, invariant subspaces, strongly continuous one-parameter semigroups, the index of operators, the trace formula of Lidskii, the Fredholm determinant, and more.
		This introduction to linear algebra by world-renowned mathematician Peter Lax is unique in its emphasis on the analytical aspects of the subject as well as its numerous applications.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Lax,Peter (448 words)

	Encyclopedia: Peter Lax (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Peter David Lax (born May 1,1926) is a highly-respected mathematician working in the areas of mathematics.
		He has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves,solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific computing, among other fields.
		Lax holds a position in the Department of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Peter-Lax (249 words)

	Differential Equations: LA Pietra 1996 : Conference on Differential Equations Marking the 70th Birthdays of Peter Lax ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Differential Equations: LA Pietra 1996 : Conference on Differential Equations Marking the 70th Birthdays of Peter Lax and Louis Nirenberg, July 3-7, 1...
		The 11 papers discuss analysis, partial differential equations, applied mathematics, and scientific computing, focusing on the work of Peter Lax and Louis Nirenberg, whose 70th birthdays occasioned the conference.
		This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in celebration of the seventieth birthdays of Peter Lax and Louis Nirenberg at Villa la Pietra in Florence (Italy).
	cadgate.com /book/un/821806106 (231 words)

	Peter Lax Wins the 2005 Abel Prize (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Abel Committee said that it was awarding Lax the prize “for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions.”
		Lax’s writing has been twice been honored by the MAA with a Lester R. Ford award: in 1966 for “Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations” (American Mathematical Monthly 72 [1965], Part II, 78—84) and in 1973 for “The Formation and Decay of Shock Waves” (American Mathematical Monthly 79 [1972], 227—241).
		Lax’s work has been recognized by many other honors and awards, including the National Medal of Science in 1986, the Wolf Prize in 1987, and the American Mathematical Society’s Steele Prize in 1992.
	www.maa.org /news/050505abelprize.html (216 words)

	A Conversation With Peter Lax
		Lax's own work, at N.Y.U.'s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has often straddled the territory where theoretical mathematics and applied physics meet.
		He is widely known for his work on wave theory, and his discoveries there are used for weather prediction, airplane design and telecommunications signaling.
		This month, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced that Dr. Lax, who is 78, would receive its third Abel Prize, accompanied by $980,000, an honor created to compensate for the absence of a mathematics category among the Nobel Prizes.
	www.nychold.com /art-nyt-lax-050329.html (1146 words)

	Peter Lax Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
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	DBLP: Peter P. Chen
		Peter P. Chen, David W. Embley, Jacques Kouloumdjian, Stephen W. Liddle, John F. Roddick: Advances in Conceptual Modeling: ER '99 Workshops on Evolution and Change in Data Management, Reverse Engineering in Information Systems, and the World Wide Web and Conceptual Modeling, Paris, France, November 15-18, 1999, Proceedings Springer 1999
		Peter P. Chen, Reind P. van de Riet: Introduction to the Special Issue Celebrating the 25th Volume of Data and Knowledge Engineering: DKE.
		Peter P. Chen: Entity-Relationship Approach: The Use of ER Concept in Knowledge Representation, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Entity-Relationship Approach, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 29-30 October 1985 IEEE Computer Society and North-Holland 1985
	informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/c/Chen:Peter_P=.html (760 words)

	EuroScience.Net: Peter Lax, a Life in Mathematics - the open network for science and writers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Claudia Dreifus talks with Peter Lax, the eminent mathematician of New York University, now aged 78 and retired, who won the Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science.
		Besides the Fields Medal, the Abel Prize is the most important award in mathematics and seen as an equivalent to a Nobel Prize.
		Lax was born in Hungary and left Budapest in 1941 just before World War II broke out.
	www.insidescience.net /eurosciencenet/stories/609 (229 words)

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