دانلود کتاب Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir

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Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Permissions and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A prodigy and his family have a narrow escape
2. Manhattan, NY, and Manhattan Project. An army private among the “Martians”
3. Family life: Son, husband, father, grandfather
4. Early career
5. The famous CDC 6600 bomb-scare adventure
6. Later career
7. The queen of Norway
Entr’acte. Peter’s stories
8. Books
9. Pure AND applied, not VERSUS applied
10. Difference schemes. Shocks. Solitons. Scattering. Lax-Milgram. Pólya’s curve, etc.
Epilogue
Appendix 1. Anneli Lax
Appendix 2. John von Neumann: The early years, the years at Los Alamos, and the road to computing
Appendix 3. The life of Richard Courant
Appendix 4. Peter D. Lax curriculum vitae
Appendix 5. The closed graph theorem
Appendix 6. List of Peter Lax’s doctoral students (from the Mathematics Genealogy Project)
John Lax
Appendix 7. From A Liberal Education, by Abbott Gleason, pages 314–317 on John Lax
Appendix 8. John Lax article on Chicago jazz musicians
References
Index