Mathematical Digest

Peter Lax (left) and Louis Nirenberg.

This article describes the careers of New York Universitymathematicians Peter Lax and Louis Nirenberg, who at the time thearticle appeared had both recently retired. In 2005, Lax was awardedthe Abel Prize; click herefor a Math Digest summary of the news coverage. An interviewwith Nirenberg appeared in the April 2002 issue of the Notices of the AMS.

--- Allyn Jackson