Re: Another Abel prize interview

Posted by Edward Angel on Jan 21, 2021; 4:02pm
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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.

Ed

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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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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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