Peter Lax, an innovator in applied mathematics who left Hungary during World War II and worked on U.S. atomic bomb calculations as a college student while developing equations that would later ...

Peter Lax, whose work at the intersection of mathematical theory and application redefined how scientists used new computing technology to solve the technical problems of the Cold War, from designing ...

Peter Lax, one of the great minds of the 20 th century, died May 16 in his Manhattan home. He was 99. Peter won the Abel Prize, widely considered the Nobel Prize of Mathematics, and he did much to ...