[FRIAM] Another Abel prize interview

[Frank Wimberly]

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>
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!
>
>
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