Peter Lax, mathematician
Subtitle: an illustrated memoir
By: Reuben Hersh ; photographic research by Eda Gordon
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Providence, Rhode Island
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781470417086
Subjects: Mathematicians; Biography; History and biography -- History of mathematics and mathematicians -- Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies; History and biography -- History of mathematics and mathematicians -- Schools of mathematics; Partial differential equations -- General topics -- Propagation of singularities; Partial differential equations -- Representations of solutions -- Soliton solutions; Partial differential equations -- Hyperbolic equations and systems -- Wave equation; Partial differential equations -- Hyperbolic equations and systems -- First-order hyperbolic systems; Fluid mechanics -- Shock waves and blast waves -- Shock waves and blast waves; Numerical analysis -- Partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems -- Finite difference methods; Partial differential equations -- Equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application -- KdV-like equations (Korteweg-de Vries)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-231) and index.