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 _______________________ Ed Angel 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) an...@cs.unm.edu <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel> > On Jan 21, 2021, at 8:38 AM, Roger Frye <frye.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir > by Reuben Hersh > <https://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=Reuben+Hersh&text=Reuben+Hersh&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books> > (Author) > https://smile.amazon.com/Peter-Lax-Mathematician-Illustrated-Memoir/dp/1470417081/ref=sr_1_1 > > <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 <wimber...@gmail.com > <mailto:wimber...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I know that Lax reviewed a late draft which suggests it was essentially > complete. > > Frank > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:30 AM Barry MacKichan <barry.mackic...@mackichan.com > <mailto:barry.mackic...@mackichan.com>> 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 > <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! > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/> > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... > -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/> > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > <http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/> > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
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