Peter David Lax (born 1926) is a highly-respected mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied 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 faculty position in the Department of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA . He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1986, the Wolf Prize in 1987 and the Abel Prize in 2005.
Books
- Functional Analysis
- Linear Algebra
- Scattering Theory for Automorphic Functions
- Calculus with Applications and Computing
- Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws and the Mathematical Theory of Shock Waves
- Recent Advances in Partial Differential Equations
- Mathematical Aspects of Production and Distribution of Energy
- Scattering Theory
- Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Applied Science
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