An edition of Peter Lax, mathematician (2015)
Peter Lax, mathematician
an illustrated memoir
By Reuben Hersh
Publish Date
2015
Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Language
eng
Pages
253
Description:
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), Mathematicians, biography
People: Peter D. Lax
Places: United States