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 <an...@cs.unm.edu> 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 > _______________________ > > 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 > 505-453-4944 (cell) 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 > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:34 AM Frank Wimberly <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> 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! >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from: 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/ >>> >>> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >>> 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/ >>> >> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >> 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/ >> > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > 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/ > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > 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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