Roy Goodman@roygoodman.net17 May 2025www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...nytimes.comPeter Lax, Pre-eminent Cold War Mathematician, Dies at 9913
Roy Goodman@roygoodman.net17 May 2025I taught numerical PDE this semester. This was on the whiteboard on his 99th birthday:
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