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1. Peter Lax (1926 - 2025) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   1 Oct 2025: Math. Soc. (February 2006), 223-229. D Serre, Le Prix Abel 2005 à Peter Lax, Matapli No. ... Honours awarded to Peter Lax. Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson.

2. Peter Lax's student years - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Komal_Lax/

   7 Mar 2023: We quote here the part relating to the student years of Péter Lax:-. ... Péter Lax was born in 1926 in Budapest. He left for America at the age of 15 where he was lucky to fall into the hands of John von Neumann.

3. Peter Lax - NY Times - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Lax_Peter_NY_Times/

   4 Jun 2025: Peter Lax, Pre-eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 99. As the computer age dawned, he saw how the new technology could be harnessed to mathematics to solve problems in everything ... Peter Lax, whose work at the intersection of mathematical theory

4. Pictures of Peter Lax - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   2 Jan 2026: Photograph by Paul Halmos. With Carleson and Varadhan.

5. Lax Awards - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Lax_awards/

   1 Oct 2025: 6.2. Peter Lax wins the NAS Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis. ... The first awards were made in 1978. 8.2. Peter Lax wins the Wolf Prize.

6. Chern Visiting Professor - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/Chern_Lectures/

   29 Mar 2024: 19992000 Don Zagier. 2001 Joseph Bernstein, Peter Lax, Bertram Kostant. 2005 Terence Tao. ... 2016-17 Sergiu Klainerman. 2017-18 Martin Hairer. 2018-19 Assaf Naor. 2022-23 Peter Sarnak.

7. Edinburgh Mathematical Society Lecturers 1883-2024 - MacTutor History …

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/EMS/ems_lecturers/

   12 May 2026: Below we list venues, authors of papers/talks, affiliations where known, and titles for meetings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society from 1883, the year of the founding of the Society, to the present day. Some of those listed were not present at

8. Mathematicians in Richard S Westfall's archive - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/westfall_list/

   7 Mar 2023: Richard Westfall's archive contains concise biographical details of more than 640 members of the Scientific Community of the 16th and 17th Centuries. The mathematicians who have biographies in our archive are listed below. You can search the whole

9. 1990 ICM - Kyoto - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/ICM/ICM_Kyoto_1990/

   15 Dec 2023: The Fields Medal Committee consisted of Ludwig D Faddeev (Chairman ex officio), Michael F Atiyah, Jean-Michel Bismut,Kenkichi Iwasawa, Peter D Lax, and Igor Shafarevich.

10. Pictures of Anneli Lax - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lax_Anneli/pictdisplay/

    23 Feb 2026: With Peter Lax.