Peter Lax: Abel Prize winner 2005. Photo: Anne Lise Flavik

2005: Peter D. Lax

Courant Institute, New York University, USA
"for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory and application of partial differential equations and to the computation of their solutions."

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The Abel Interview with Peter D. Lax

The Abel Prize Interview 2005 with Peter D. Lax. Interviewed by mathematicians Martin Raussen og Christian Skau.

HLF Portaits: Peter D. Lax

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation presents the HLF Portraits: Peter D. Lax; Abel Prize, 2005.

Stephanos Venakides: Rigorous semiclassical asymptotics for integrable systems

Programme available in the YouTube description

Peter Lax: Abstract Phragmen-Lindelöf theorem & Saint Venant’s principle

Peter Lax Abel Prize lecture. Programme available in the YouTube description.

Sebastian Noelle: Systems of conservation laws

Programme available in the YouTube description.

Peter Sarnak: Hyperbolic equations and spectral geometry

Programme available in the YouTube description.