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jon zingale

Jan 20, 2021; 6:13pm

Another Abel prize interview

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Here is another pretty good Abel Prize interview, this one is with Srinivasa
S. R. Varadhan. Around 46 minutes he talks a little bit about work that had
ties to the work Reuben did on probabilistic methods for solving PDEs via
work with Kac. He does not mention Reuben explicitly, but yeah, good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q98vh-1Qhv4&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize

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jon zingale

Jan 20, 2021; 8:21pm

Re: Another Abel prize interview

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mmm... perhaps even better is this one with Reuben's advisor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU1WNG68YfY&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize

He talks about all kinds of good stuff: the work of Richtmyer, solutions,
nonlinear approximations, carving semi-groups from unitary Lie groups in the
study of scattering, and surprisingly the Riemann hypothesis in terms of
decaying signals!

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Barry MacKichan

Jan 21, 2021; 3:29pm

Re: Another Abel prize interview

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Reuben said he was working on a biography of Peter Lax (his advisor). Does anyone know if he ever finished it?

An aside. The first national math meeting I attended was in 1966. It was in San Francisco and I was at Stanford. It was where I finally was able to put faces to names. Peter Lax was one of the first ones I saw — his chin was unmistakable.

—Barry

On 20 Jan 2021, at 15:21, jon zingale wrote:

mmm... perhaps even better is this one with Reuben's advisor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU1WNG68YfY&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize

He talks about all kinds of good stuff: the work of Richtmyer, solutions,
nonlinear approximations, carving semi-groups from unitary Lie groups in the
study of scattering, and surprisingly the Riemann hypothesis in terms of
decaying signals!

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Frank Wimberly-2

Jan 21, 2021; 3:33pm

Re: Another Abel prize interview

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I know that Lax reviewed a late draft which suggests it was essentially complete.

Frank

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On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:30 AM Barry MacKichan <[hidden email]> wrote:

Reuben said he was working on a biography of Peter Lax (his advisor). Does anyone know if he ever finished it?

An aside. The first national math meeting I attended was in 1966. It was in San Francisco and I was at Stanford. It was where I finally was able to put faces to names. Peter Lax was one of the first ones I saw — his chin was unmistakable.

—Barry

On 20 Jan 2021, at 15:21, jon zingale wrote:

mmm... perhaps even better is this one with Reuben's advisor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU1WNG68YfY&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize

He talks about all kinds of good stuff: the work of Richtmyer, solutions,
nonlinear approximations, carving semi-groups from unitary Lie groups in the
study of scattering, and surprisingly the Riemann hypothesis in terms of
decaying signals!

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Roger Frye-4

Jan 21, 2021; 3:38pm

Re: Another Abel prize interview

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Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir

by Reuben Hersh (Author)

https://smile.amazon.com/Peter-Lax-Mathematician-Illustrated-Memoir/dp/1470417081/ref=sr_1_1

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:34 AM Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:

I know that Lax reviewed a late draft which suggests it was essentially complete.

Frank

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On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:30 AM Barry MacKichan <[hidden email]> wrote:

Reuben said he was working on a biography of Peter Lax (his advisor). Does anyone know if he ever finished it?

An aside. The first national math meeting I attended was in 1966. It was in San Francisco and I was at Stanford. It was where I finally was able to put faces to names. Peter Lax was one of the first ones I saw — his chin was unmistakable.

—Barry

On 20 Jan 2021, at 15:21, jon zingale wrote:

mmm... perhaps even better is this one with Reuben's advisor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU1WNG68YfY&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize

He talks about all kinds of good stuff: the work of Richtmyer, solutions,
nonlinear approximations, carving semi-groups from unitary Lie groups in the
study of scattering, and surprisingly the Riemann hypothesis in terms of
decaying signals!

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jon zingale

Jan 21, 2021; 3:47pm

Re: Another Abel prize interview

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That's awesome!

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Edward Angel

Jan 21, 2021; 4:02pm

Re: Another Abel prize interview

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I first met Peter Lax when I was a grad student, He and my PhD advisor were good friends and he was visiting our group at USC. It turned out that Peter and I went to the same high school in NY, something he never forgot. I think it was when I was visiting my parents a little later that Peter invited me to give a talk at Courant. It was a pretty scary experience for a young grad student but it went well and we later had a wonderful lunch with his wife in Greenwich Village.

It was much later when I came to NM and met Reuben that we realized our mathematical connections.

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Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico

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On Jan 21, 2021, at 8:38 AM, Roger Frye <[hidden email]> wrote:

Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir
by Reuben Hersh (Author)
https://smile.amazon.com/Peter-Lax-Mathematician-Illustrated-Memoir/dp/1470417081/ref=sr_1_1

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:34 AM Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:
I know that Lax reviewed a late draft which suggests it was essentially complete.

Frank

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140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:30 AM Barry MacKichan <[hidden email]> wrote:

Reuben said he was working on a biography of Peter Lax (his advisor). Does anyone know if he ever finished it?
An aside. The first national math meeting I attended was in 1966. It was in San Francisco and I was at Stanford. It was where I finally was able to put faces to names. Peter Lax was one of the first ones I saw — his chin was unmistakable.
—Barry

On 20 Jan 2021, at 15:21, jon zingale wrote:

mmm... perhaps even better is this one with Reuben's advisor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU1WNG68YfY&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize

He talks about all kinds of good stuff: the work of Richtmyer, solutions,
nonlinear approximations, carving semi-groups from unitary Lie groups in the
study of scattering, and surprisingly the Riemann hypothesis in terms of
decaying signals!

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Roger Frye-4

Jan 21, 2021; 4:15pm

Re: Another Abel prize interview

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I was volunteering in the public schools tutoring math. Went to a meeting of tutors, met Reuben, and began a long friendship.

When I mentioned Reuben at work, one of my colleagues said that he took a math course from Reuben, and what he remembered most was Reuben's enthusiasm.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 9:02 AM Edward Angel <[hidden email]> wrote:

I first met Peter Lax when I was a grad student, He and my PhD advisor were good friends and he was visiting our group at USC. It turned out that Peter and I went to the same high school in NY, something he never forgot. I think it was when I was visiting my parents a little later that Peter invited me to give a talk at Courant. It was a pretty scary experience for a young grad student but it went well and we later had a wonderful lunch with his wife in Greenwich Village.

It was much later when I came to NM and met Reuben that we realized our mathematical connections.

Ed

_______________________

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Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico

1017 Sierra Pinon
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505-984-0136 (home) [hidden email]
505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel

On Jan 21, 2021, at 8:38 AM, Roger Frye <[hidden email]> wrote:

Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir
by Reuben Hersh (Author)
https://smile.amazon.com/Peter-Lax-Mathematician-Illustrated-Memoir/dp/1470417081/ref=sr_1_1

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:34 AM Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:
I know that Lax reviewed a late draft which suggests it was essentially complete.

Frank

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140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
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505 670-9918
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:30 AM Barry MacKichan <[hidden email]> wrote:

Reuben said he was working on a biography of Peter Lax (his advisor). Does anyone know if he ever finished it?
An aside. The first national math meeting I attended was in 1966. It was in San Francisco and I was at Stanford. It was where I finally was able to put faces to names. Peter Lax was one of the first ones I saw — his chin was unmistakable.
—Barry

On 20 Jan 2021, at 15:21, jon zingale wrote:

mmm... perhaps even better is this one with Reuben's advisor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU1WNG68YfY&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize

He talks about all kinds of good stuff: the work of Richtmyer, solutions,
nonlinear approximations, carving semi-groups from unitary Lie groups in the
study of scattering, and surprisingly the Riemann hypothesis in terms of
decaying signals!

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