<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It was much later when I came to NM and met Reuben that we realized our mathematical connections.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ed<br class=""><div class="">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="">_______________________</div><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Ed Angel<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)<br class="">Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico<br class=""><br class="">1017 Sierra Pinon</div><div class="">Santa Fe, NM 87501<br class="">505-984-0136 (home)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:angel@cs.unm.edu" class="">angel@cs.unm.edu</a></div><div class="">505-453-4944 (cell) <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel" class="">http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel</a><br class=""></div></span></span>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 21, 2021, at 8:38 AM, Roger Frye <<a href="mailto:frye.roger@gmail.com" class="">frye.roger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div id="gmail-titleblock_feature_div" class="gmail-celwidget" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div class="gmail-a-spacing-none gmail-a-section" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><h1 id="gmail-title" class="gmail-a-spacing-none gmail-a-text-normal" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;font-size:28px;line-height:36px"><span id="gmail-productTitle" class="gmail-a-size-extra-large" style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:36px">Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir</span></h1></div></div><div id="gmail-bylineInfo_feature_div" class="gmail-celwidget" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div id="gmail-bylineInfo" class="gmail-a-section gmail-a-spacing-micro gmail-bylineHidden gmail-feature" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">by <span class="gmail-author gmail-notFaded" style="box-sizing:border-box"><a class="gmail-a-link-normal" href="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" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(0,113,133)">Reuben Hersh</a> <span class="gmail-contribution" style="box-sizing:border-box"><span class="gmail-a-color-secondary" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(86,89,89)">(Author)</span></span></span></div></div><div class=""><a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Peter-Lax-Mathematician-Illustrated-Memoir/dp/1470417081/ref=sr_1_1" class="">https://smile.amazon.com/Peter-Lax-Mathematician-Illustrated-Memoir/dp/1470417081/ref=sr_1_1</a><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:34 AM Frank Wimberly <<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com" class="">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">I know that Lax reviewed a late draft which suggests it was essentially complete.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Frank<br class=""><br class=""><div dir="auto" class="">---<br class="">Frank C. Wimberly<br class="">140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br class="">Santa Fe, NM 87505<br class=""><br class="">505 670-9918<br class="">Santa Fe, NM</div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:30 AM Barry MacKichan <<a href="mailto:barry.mackichan@mackichan.com" target="_blank" class="">barry.mackichan@mackichan.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u class=""></u>
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<div style="font-family:sans-serif" class=""><div style="white-space:normal" class=""><p dir="auto" class="">Reuben said he was working on a biography of Peter Lax (his advisor). Does anyone know if he ever finished it?</p><p dir="auto" class="">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.</p><p dir="auto" class="">—Barry</p>
<br class=""><br class=""><p dir="auto" class="">On 20 Jan 2021, at 15:21, jon zingale wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(119,119,119);color:rgb(119,119,119);margin:0px 0px 5px;padding-left:5px" class=""><p dir="auto" class="">mmm... perhaps even better is this one with Reuben's advisor:<br class="">
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU1WNG68YfY&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize" style="color:rgb(119,119,119)" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU1WNG68YfY&ab_channel=TheAbelPrize</a><br class="">
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He talks about all kinds of good stuff: the work of Richtmyer, solutions,<br class="">
nonlinear approximations, carving semi-groups from unitary Lie groups in the<br class="">
study of scattering, and surprisingly the Riemann hypothesis in terms of<br class="">
decaying signals!<br class="">
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