[FRIAM] Another Abel prize interview

[Edward Angel]

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
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> On Jan 21, 2021, at 8:38 AM, Roger Frye <frye.roger at 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 <wimberly3 at gmail.com <mailto:wimberly3 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> I know that Lax reviewed a late draft which suggests it was essentially complete.
> 
> Frank
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> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:30 AM Barry MacKichan <barry.mackichan at mackichan.com <mailto:barry.mackichan at 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
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> 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!
> 
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