The Lax–Friedrichs method, named after Peter Lax and Kurt O. Friedrichs, is a numerical method for the solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations...

Courant. Courant became a close colleague and lifelong friend of Friedrichs. In 1931, Friedrichs became a full professor of mathematics at the Technische Hochschule...

in 1948 and earning a PhD in 1949 under the supervision of Kurt O. Friedrichs. Lax holds a faculty position in the Department of Mathematics, Courant...

Finite difference methods for hyperbolic PDEs like the wave equation: Lax–Friedrichs method — first-order explicit Lax–Wendroff method — second-order explicit...

scheme Lax–Friedrichs method MUSCL scheme Sergei Godunov Total variation diminishing Lax–Wendroff theorem Advection upstream splitting method Godunov...

difference method Stencil (numerical analysis) Finite difference coefficients Five-point stencil Lax–Richtmyer theorem Finite difference methods for option...

Runge–Kutta method Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy condition. Von Neumann stability analysis. Finite element method Explicit and implicit methods Chi-Wang Shu...

differential equations numerically. Courant is a namesake of the Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy condition and the Courant minimax principle. Courant was an elected...

differential equations, Lax and Friedrichs invent the Lax-Friedrichs method. Householder invents his eponymous matrices and transformation method (voted one of...

members have been awarded the National Medal of Science (Kurt O. Friedrichs, Peter Lax, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Louis Nirenberg, Charles S. Peskin, S...

of science Laws of thermodynamics Lawson criterion Lax pair Lax–Friedrichs method Lax–Wendroff method Lazare Carnot Lazarus effect LeConte Hall LeRoy Apker...

The Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library is an expository monograph series published by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The books in the...

supervision of Kurt Otto Friedrichs. Her thesis was entitled Contracting Spherical Shocks Treated by a Perturbation Method. After earning her doctorate...

is most frequently called Lax-Friedrichs flux (though it's worth mentioning that such flux expression does not appear in Lax, 1954 but rather on Rusanov...

In mathematics, the Schwarz alternating method or alternating process is an iterative method introduced in 1869–1870 by Hermann Schwarz in the theory of...

Other contributions from these years are the review of upwind methods with Harten and Lax, the AMS workshop paper detailing the differences and resemblances...

James J. Stoker (1958–1966) Kurt O. Friedrichs (1966–1967) Jürgen Moser (1967–1970) Louis Nirenberg (1970–1972) Peter Lax (1972–1980) S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan...

among other subjects, the theory and applications of the finite element method in structural mechanics, fluid mechanics, and electrodynamics. Brezzi's...

In numerical mathematics, the gradient discretisation method (GDM) is a framework which contains classical and recent numerical schemes for diffusion problems...

Ergänzungen). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co. Note: digital file. Jean D'Ans; Ellen Lax (1943). Taschenbuch für Chemiker und Physiker (1 ed.). Note: 3 volumes. M...

C. D.; Lax, Anneli; Davidoff, Giuliana P. (2000), "Chapter 9: A new principle in the geometry of numbers", The Geometry of Numbers, Anneli Lax New Mathematical...

doi:10.1111/jeu.13003. PMID 37803921. Cho, Anna; Tikhonenkov, Denis V.; Lax, Gordon; Prokina, Kristina I.; Keeling, Patrick J. (2025). "Phylogenomic...

confirmed that the "recent norovirus outbreak in Virginia was the result of lax sick policy enforcement by store managers" and that the company believed...

"The Two Cultures of Mathematics" (PDF). In Arnold, V. I.; Atiyah, Michael; Lax, Peter D.; Mazur, Barry (eds.). Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives....

world-renowned mathematicians, including John von Neumann, Paul Erdős, and Peter Lax. The early 20th century saw Hungarian mathematics flourish under several...

photoelasticity was given in 1890 by Friedrich Pockels, however this was proved inadequate almost a century later by Nelson & Lax as the description by Pockels...

quantum field theory and the theory of elementary particles. Peter David Lax (professor, United States): for outstanding contribution to the theory of...

establish themselves at the center of their empire, they become increasingly lax and more concerned with maintaining their lifestyles. Thus, a new dynasty...

conspiracy-minded literature in a period of heightened nationalism and more lax restrictions on freedom of press following the dissolution of the Soviet...

Giorgi–Nash theory. Nash received instant recognition for his work, with Peter Lax describing it as a "stroke of genius". Nash would later speculate that had...