Peter Lax, Mathematician

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  • Peter Lax, Mathematician Book Detail

  • Author : Reuben Hersh
  • Release Date : 2014-12-29
  • Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 298
  • ISBN 13 : 1470417081
  • File Size : 80,80 MB
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Peter Lax, Mathematician by Reuben Hersh PDF Summary

Book Description: This book is a biography of one of the most famous and influential living mathematicians, Peter Lax. He is virtually unique as a preeminent leader in both pure and applied mathematics, fields which are often seen as competing and incompatible. Although he has been an academic for all of his adult life, his biography is not without drama and tragedy. Lax and his family barely escaped to the U.S. from Budapest before the Holocaust descended. He was one of the youngest scientists to work on the Manhattan Project. He played a leading role in coping with the infamous "kidnapping" of the NYU mathematics department's computer, in 1970. The list of topics in which Lax made fundamental and long-lasting contributions is remarkable: scattering theory, solitons, shock waves, and even classical analysis, to name a few. His work has been honored many times, including the Abel Prize in 2005. The book concludes with an account of his most important mathematical contributions, made accessible without heavy prerequisites. Reuben Hersh has written extensively on mathematics. His book with Philip Davis, The Mathematical Experience, won the National Book Award in science. Hersh is emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of New Mexico.

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