ABEL PRIZE 2005 BIO PAGE
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"Peter D. Lax combines exceptionally pure and applied mathematics, combining a deep understanding of analysis and an extraordinary capacity for invention unifying concepts. He exercised a decisive influence, not only by his research but also through his writings, his unwavering commitment to training and his generosity to younger colleagues that it ".
mathematician Peter Lax is a Hungarian Jew born in 1926 in Budapest and American citizenship.
The Abel Prize for Mathematics in 2005 was officially presented to Peter D. Lax May 20 last.
The Abel Prize, often considered the Nobel Prize in Mathematics, is 6 million NOK and was awarded this year for the third time. For the record, the first laureate in 2003, was the french Jean-Piere Serre.
Peter D. Lax, professor at the Universite de New York, is one of the greatest mathematicians of his time in the fields of pure and applied mathematics. The Abel Prize 2005 was awarded for his "innovative contributions to the theory of partial differential equations, such equations APPLICATION and computation of solutions to these equations", as expressed Erling Stromer, Professor and Chairman of the Committee Abel, in his speech at the prize-giving ceremony. The name of Peter D. Lax is associated has significant results and mathematical methods such as the Lax-Milgram theorem, the Lax equivalence theorem, the Lax-Friedrichs scheme and the Lax-Wendroff scheme. Peter D. Lax stated that he would pay part of his reward was a background for the support of mathematics and another part was his grandchildren to finance their studies. associated objective science
Peter D. Lax was born on 1 May 1926 in Budapest, Hungary. He was en route to New York with his parents Dec. 7, 1941 when the U.S. entered the war.
Peter D. Lax received his PhD in 1949 from New York University (NYU), Richard Courant with a very large German Jewish mathematician, as supervisor. Current had founded the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, whose Lax assured direction from 1972 to 1980. In 1950, Peter D. Lax went to Los Alamos for a year and then worked there several summers as an expert.
By 1951, however, he returned to the University of New York to begin his life's work at the Courant Institute. Lax was appointed professor in 1958. At NYU, he also held the post of Director of Computing and Applied Math Center ACS (Nuclear Energy Commission). In proposing
Lax as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1962, Current describes him as "the incarnation, perhaps more than any other, the combination of abstract and mathematical analysis able to solve more concrete problems individually. "
Peter D. Lax is one of the leading researchers in pure and applied mathematics of our time and made significant contributions, ranging from partial differential equations in engineering applications. His name is linked to many major mathematical results and numerical methods such as the Lax-Milgram lemma, the equivalence theorem of Lax, the scheme of Lax-Friedrich scheme of Lax-Wendroff, Lax entropy and Lax-Levermore theory.
Peter D. Lax is also one of the founders of mathematical modern computer. Among his most important contributions to the community, High Performance Computing and Communications, is his work for the National Science Board Computing and Applied Math Center from 1980 to 1986. He also chaired the committee convened by the National Science Board to study the large-scale computing in science and mathematics - a pioneer who led the Lax report.
Professor Lax's work has been honored with numerous prizes and awards. He received the National Medal of Science in 1986, awarded by President Ronald Reagan at a ceremony at the White House. Peter Lax received the Wolf Prize in 1987 and the Chauvenet Prize in 1974 and shared the Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society in 1992. He also received the Norbert Wiener Award in 1975 from the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. In 1996 he was elected Fellow of the American Philosophical Society.
Peter D. Lax was president (1977-80) and Vice-President (1969-71) of the American Mathematical Society.
Professor Peter D. Lax is an outstanding educator who has trained many students. There was also a tireless reformer of the study of mathematics and his work on differential equations has for decades been a standard feature of the study of mathematics in the world.
Peter D. Lax is Doctor Honoris Causa of several universities worldwide. When he was honored by the University of Technology Aachen, Aachen, Germany in 1988, his major contribution to mathematics and the importance of his work in the field of engineering have both been highlighted. He was also honored for his positive approach to the use of computers in mathematics research and teaching. abelprisen
Since Newton differential equations have always formed the basis of scientific understanding of nature. Linear differential equations, in which the causes and effects are directly proportional, are reasonably well understood. The equations that appear in fields such as aerodynamics, meteorology and elasticity are nonlinear and far more complex solutions can produce singularities. Think of the shock waves that are created when an airplane crosses the sound barrier norway
Peter Lax is always appreciated for his "jokes". We found several on the web. For example: The games
Kronprinz: after Peter Lax children of Hungarian intellectual bourgeoisie enjoyed ridiculing the imperial monarchy. They invented the game of the Crown Prince and his tutor. There are two players the fact the Crown Prince and the other tutor. The tutor should ask the question as easy as possible, the Crown Prince should find the answer the dumbest possible. Finally the tutor must find a way to compliment the Crown Prince for the quality of its response.
The first who does not know what to say lost, 'Crown Prince, tell me how long the war lasted 30 years, 50 years my precepteur.Tres Mr. Kronprinz well, you remember that at that' era means of communication were much slower and things took a lot longer. ' smf Hamath
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