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Overview

Peter D. Lax is affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in the United States. Their work is documented through recent scholarly output and collaborations with several co-authors. This profile reflects available data on their publications, co-authors, and venues of publication.

In 2021, Peter D. Lax contributed to a paper titled Louis Nirenberg (1925-2020), which was published in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Yanyan Li (2 collaborations)
  • Robert V. Kohn (1 collaboration)
  • Shmuel Agmon (1 collaboration)
  • Djairo G. de Figueiredo (1 collaboration)
  • Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan (1 collaboration)

Regarding publication venues, their work has appeared in the following outlet:

  • Notices of the American Mathematical Society (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Integrals of Nonlinear Equations of Evolution and Solitary Waves

    Peter D. Lax

  • Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws II

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  • On Upstream Differencing and Godunov-Type Schemes for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

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  • Systems of conservation laws

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  • Weak solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic equations and their numerical computation

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  • Difference schemes for hyperbolic equations with high order of accuracy

    Peter D. Lax;Burton Wendroff

  • Periodic solutions of the KdV equation

    Peter D. Lax

  • Proof of a conjecture of P. Erdös on the derivative of a polynomial

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  • Systems of conservation equations with a convex extension.

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  • Survey of the stability of linear finite difference equations

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  • Solution of Two-Dimensional Riemann Problems of Gas Dynamics by Positive Schemes

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  • Development of Singularities of Solutions of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations

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  • Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws

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  • Shock Waves and Entropy

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  • Asymptotic solutions of oscillatory initial value problems

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  • Local boundary conditions for dissipative symmetric linear differential operators

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  • Scattering Theory for Automorphic Functions.

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  • A simple one-dimensional model for the three-dimensional vorticity equation

    P. Constantin;P. D. Lax;A. Majda

  • The asymptotic distribution of lattice points in Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces

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  • Almost Periodic Solutions of the KdV Equation

    Peter D. Lax

  • The small dispersion limit of the Korteweg‐de Vries equation. III

    Peter D. Lax;C. David Levermore

  • Symmetrizable linear transformations

    Peter D. Lax

  • On cauchy's problem for hyperbolic equations and the differentiability of solutions of elliptic equations

    Peter D. Lax

  • On matrices whose real linear combinations are non-singular

    J. F. Adams;Peter D. Lax;Ralph S. Phillips

  • Scattering Theory for Dissipative Hyperbolic Systems

    Peter D. Lax;Ralph S. Phillips

  • On the stability of difference schemes

    Peter D. Lax;Burton Wendroff

  • The computation of discontinuous solutions of linear hyperbolic equations

    Michael S. Mock;Peter D. Lax

  • On nonlinear partial differential equations with two independent variables

    Richard Courant;Peter Lax

  • Dispersive approximations in fluid dynamics

    Thomas Y. Hou;Peter D. Lax

  • Translation representations for automorphic solutions of the wave equation in non‐euclidean spaces. I

    Peter D. Lax;Ralph S. Phillips

  • Convex Entropies and Hyperbolicity for General Euler Equations

    Ami Harten;Peter D. Lax;C. David Levermore;William J. Morokoff

  • Stability of Difference Schemes

    Peter D. Lax

  • On the stability of difference approximations to solutions of hyperbolic equations with variable coefficients

    Peter D. Lax

  • Positive schemes for solving multi-dimensional hyperbolic systems of conservation laws II

    Xu-Dong Liu;Peter D. Lax

  • Mathematics and its applications

    Peter D. Lax

  • The scattering of sound waves by an obstacle

    Peter D. Lax;Ralph S. Phillips

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Constantin
Peter Constantin Princeton University
Thomas Y. Hou
Thomas Y. Hou California Institute of Technology

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