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Peter Lax

1926 - Today

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Peter David Lax (born Lax Péter Dávid; 1 May 1926) is a Hungarian-born American mathematician and Abel Prize laureate working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. Lax 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. In a 1958 paper Lax stated a conjecture about matrix representations for third order hyperbolic polynomials which remained unproven for over four decades. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Lax has received more than 301,770 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Peter Lax is the 514th most popular mathematician (down from 442nd in 2019), the 352nd most popular biography from Hungary (down from 299th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Peter Lax ranks 514 out of 1,004. Before him are Hillel Furstenberg, Johann Baptist Cysat, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Otto Hölder, Kushyar Gilani, and Hermann Bondi. After him are 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk, Solomon Lefschetz, William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, Polyaenus of Lampsacus, Jai Singh II, and Guðbrandur Þorláksson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Peter Lax ranks 221. Before him are Nikita Simonyan, Sadegh Khalkhali, Allan Sandage, Yitzhak Arad, Julio Pérez, and Zinaida Portnova. After him are Friedrich Cerha, Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Lu'ay al-Atassi, Judith Malina, Julie London, and Gottfried Diener.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Peter Lax ranks 352 out of 1,077. Before him are Gyula Benczúr (1844), Ferenc Hirzer (1902), Simon of Kéza (1250), Lajos Baróti (1914), Vilma Bánky (1901), and Gyula Károlyi (1871). After him are Bertalan Farkas (1949), József Eötvös (1813), Nándor Dáni (1871), Isidor Gunsberg (1854), Ervin Zádor (1935), and Vilmos Zsigmond (1930).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Peter Lax ranks 10. Before him are Marcel Grossmann (1878), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), John G. Kemeny (1926), László Lovász (1948), Frigyes Riesz (1880), and Raoul Bott (1923). After him are Pál Turán (1910), Klára Dán von Neumann (1911), Dénes Kőnig (1884), Paul Halmos (1916), Endre Szemerédi (1940), and Lipót Fejér (1880).

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