Peter David Lax (born May 1, 1926, Budapest, Hungary) is a highly-respected mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He 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. Lax was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved with his parents (Klara Kornfield and Henry Lax) to the United States in 1941. Wikipedia
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