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Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir
About this Title
Reuben Hersh, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Publication: AMS Non-Series Monographs
Publication Year:
2015; Volume 88
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-1708-6 (print); 978-1-4704-2043-7 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mbk/088
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Chapter 1. A prodigy and his family have a narrow escape
- Chapter 2. Manhattan, NY, and Manhattan Project. An army private among the “Martians”
- Chapter 3. Family life: Son, husband, father, grandfather
- Chapter 4. Early career
- Chapter 5. The famous CDC 6600 bomb-scare adventure
- Chapter 6. Later career
- Chapter 7. The queen of Norway
- Entr’acte. Peter’s stories
- Chapter 8. Books
- Chapter 9. Pure AND applied, not VERSUS applied
- Chapter 10. Difference schemes. Shocks. Solitons. Scattering. Lax-Milgram. Polya’s curve. Etc.
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1. Anneli Lax
- Appendix 2. John von Neumann: The early years, the years at Los Alamos, and the road to computing
- Appendix 3. The life of Richard Courant
- Appendix 4. Peter D. Lax curriculum vitae
- Appendix 5. The closed graph theorem
- Appendix 6. List of Peter Lax’s doctoral students (from the Mathematics Genealogy Project)
John Lax