[FRIAM] Another Abel prize interview

[Roger Frye]

Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir
by Reuben Hersh
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:34 AM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know that Lax reviewed a late draft which suggests it was essentially
> complete.
>
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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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