What is Peter Lax?
{{Infobox scientist |birth_name=Peter David Lax |image=Peter Lax in Tokyo.jpg |caption=Peter Lax in Tokyo, 1969 |birth_date={{birth date and age|df=yes|1926|05|01}} |birth_place = [[Budapest]], [[Kingdom of Hungary]] |nationality =[[United States|American]] |field=[[Mathematics]] |work_institutions = [[Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences|Courant Institute]] |alma_mater = [[Stuyvesant High School]] <br /> [[Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences|Courant Institute]] | thesis_title = Nonlinear System of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations in Two Independent Variables | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = 1949 |doctoral_advisor = [[Kurt O. Friedrichs|K. O. Friedrichs]] |doctoral_students = {{plainlist| *Steve Alpern *Alexandre Chorin *Charles Epstein *Ami Harten *James (Mac) Hyman *George Logemann *Jeffrey Rauch *Burton Wendroff }} | known_for=Lax–Wendroff method<br>Lax equivalence theorem<br>Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem<br>Lax pairs |prizes={{unbulleted list|[[Honorary doctorate|Doctor Honoris Causa]], [[Tulane University]] (2012) ||[[National Medal of Science]] (1986) |[[Wolf Prize]] (1987) |[[Norbert Wiener Prize]] (1975)| [[Chauvenet Prize]] (1974) |[[Abel Prize]] (2005)}} }} '''Peter David Lax''' (born 1 May 1926) is an [[Americans|American]] [[mathematician]]. He is known for his works in [[integrable system]]s, [[fluid dynamics]] and [[shock wave]]s, [[soliton]]ic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and [[numerical analysis|scientific computing]], among other fields. Lax is listed as an [[ISI highly cited researcher]].<ref>{{Cite web | last = Thomson ISI | title = Lax, Peter D., ISI Highly Cited Researchers | url = http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Browse&link2=Results&id=3419 | accessdate = 20 June 2009 | archive-date = 4 March 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060304074142/http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Browse&link2=Results&id=3419 | url-status = dea