Posted on 03/29/2005 3:24:58 AM PST by infocats
In the world of modern mathematics, Dr. Peter D. Lax, professor emeritus at New York University, ranks among the giants.
As a teenage refugee from the Nazis, he worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, where met the likes of Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman and Edward Teller.
As a young mathematician, he was a protégé of John von Neumann, a father of modern computing.
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