A New York University professor emeritus at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Peter Lax, has won the $980,000 Abel Prize, popularly known as the Nobel Prize of mathematics. That’s $1 ...

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 ...

Peter Lax, in Oslo to receive the $980,000 Abel Prize for mathematics, said that working as a 19-year-old student on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, N.M., ...

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters awarded its prestigious Abel prize, a kind of surrogate for a Nobel prize in mathematics, to American Peter Lax, the academy said on Thursday. It ...

Peter Lax was a mathematician working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and then the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico. In the videos below, Lax talks about his experiences. This artifact is ...

An obituary on Monday about Peter Lax, a pre-eminent Cold War mathematician, misspelled the first name of a mathematician who tutored Mr. Lax in his youth in Hungary.