[FRIAM] Another Abel prize interview

[Roger Frye]

I was volunteering in the public schools tutoring math. Went to a meeting
of tutors, met Reuben, and began a long friendship.

When I mentioned Reuben at work, one of my colleagues said that he took a
math course from Reuben, and what he remembered most was Reuben's
enthusiasm.


On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 9:02 AM Edward Angel <angel at cs.unm.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
> 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.
>>
>> 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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