Talk:Peter Lax

I put in a paragraph in the article about the "Lax conjecture". Perhaps someone else could put in a brief summary of important mathematical results due to Lax, especially theorems, etc., which are named after him. Perhaps this could be one section of the article. In particular, seems to me it would be good if the "see also" links could be incorportated, with a brief description, into this section of the article itself. What I gather about Wikipedia policy/culture is that an informative sentence on noteworthy matters with links in it is preferred over a list of links. Anyone wanna confirm, am I right about that? My1wiki2username3 14:13, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

:Wow, this question was asked nearly 17 years ago, and no one has yet added the section, which is clearly necessary. I wish had the competence to do so. I might attempt it, but an analyst would do a better job.

:Let me at least cite a couple of likely sources:

:https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lax_Peter/

:https://euromathsoc.org/news/peter-lax-(1926-2025)-172

:https://abelprize.no/sites/default/files/2021-04/The_Abel_Committee_s_citation_and_biography_en_Peter_Lax_2005.pdf

:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/peter-lax-dead.html

:https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/science/from-budapest-to-los-alamos-a-life-in-mathematics.html Ishboyfay (talk) 17:18, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

::There is also a biography Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir by Reuben Hersh. Ishboyfay (talk) 17:49, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 07:32, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

I think he died today, shouldn't this be reflected in the article? The source is [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/peter-lax-dead.html New York Times]. ELSchissel (talk) 23:29, 16 May 2025 (UTC)