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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 275,656 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Peter Lax is the 443rd most popular mathematician (up from 465th in 2019), the 299th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 286th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Peter Lax ranks 443 out of 823. Before him are Oscar Zariski, Vladimir Smirnov, Robert Langlands, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Kurt Hensel, and Max Dehn. After him are Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, Michael O. Rabin, Georgy Voronoy, 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk, Henryk Zygalski, and Johan Jensen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Peter Lax ranks 194. Before him are Mieczysław Rakowski, Sonja Ziemann, Ivica Horvat, Shigeru Kayano, Vitaly Vorotnikov, and Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. After him are James Samuel Coleman, Ladislav Adamec, Mickey Hargitay, José Alfredo Jiménez, Sadegh Khalkhali, and Michael Bond.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Peter Lax ranks 299 out of 866. Before him are Ján Kadár (1918), Mihály Vörösmarty (1800), Cornell Capa (1918), Gyula Kellner (1871), László Benedek (1905), and György Orth (1901). After him are Márton Bukovi (1903), Zoltán Fábri (1917), Emma Orczy (1865), Gábor Szabó (1936), Sára Salkaházi (1899), and Ottó Bláthy (1860).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Peter Lax ranks 8. Before him are Paul Erdős (1913), George Pólya (1887), Marcel Grossmann (1878), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), John G. Kemeny (1926), and László Lovász (1948). After him are Paul Halmos (1916), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Dénes Kőnig (1884), Pál Turán (1910), Rózsa Péter (1905), and Endre Szemerédi (1940).

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