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80 relations: Abel Prize, Academic Press, Albert Einstein, Alexandre Chorin, American Mathematical Society, Ami Harten, Anneli Cahn Lax, Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem, Budapest, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Burton Wendroff, CDC 6600, Charles Epstein, Chauvenet Prize, Complex analysis, Computational science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Fluid dynamics, Gábor Szegő, George Logemann, George Pólya, György Marx, Helge Holden, Heriot-Watt University, Honorary degree, Hungary, Institute for Scientific Information, Integrable system, James (Mac) Hyman, James Glimm, Jeffrey Rauch, Jews, John von Neumann, John Wiley & Sons, Kingdom of Hungary, Kurt Otto Friedrichs, Lax equivalence theorem, Lax pair, Lax–Friedrichs method, Lax–Wendroff method, Leo Szilard, Lisbon, Lomonosov Gold Medal, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Manhattan Project, Mathematician, Mathematics, Matrix (mathematics), National Academy of Sciences, National Medal of Science, ..., New Mexico, New York University, Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Paul Erdős, Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award, Phillip Colella, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Ralph S. Phillips, Rózsa Péter, Richard Courant, Shock wave, Soliton, Springer Science+Business Media, Stanford University, Steve Alpern, Stuyvesant High School, Supercomputer, Texas A&M University, The Martians (scientists), Transcendental Students, Tulane University, Undercompressive shock wave, United States, University of New Mexico, Weak formulation, Weather Underground, Wolf Prize. Expand index (30 more) »
Abel Prize
The Abel Prize (Abelprisen) is a Norwegian prize awarded annually by the Government of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians.
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Academic Press
Academic Press is an academic book publisher.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
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Alexandre Chorin
Alexandre Joel Chorin (born 25 June 1938) is a University Professor at the University of California, a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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American Mathematical Society
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs.
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Ami Harten
Amiram Harten (1946 – 1994) was an American/Israeli applied mathematician.
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Anneli Cahn Lax
Anneli Cahn Lax (23 February 1922, Katowice – 24 September 1999, New York City) was an American mathematician, who was known for being an editor of the Mathematics Association of America's New Mathematical Library Series, and for her work in reforming mathematics education with the inclusion of language skills.
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Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem
In mathematics, the Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem is a generalization of the famous Lax–Milgram theorem, which gives conditions under which a bilinear form can be "inverted" to show the existence and uniqueness of a weak solution to a given boundary value problem.
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Budapest
Budapest is the capital and the most populous city of Hungary, and one of the largest cities in the European Union.
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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
The Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is a quarterly mathematical journal published by the American Mathematical Society.
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Burton Wendroff
Burton Wendroff (born 10 March 1930) is an American applied mathematician and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico.
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CDC 6600
The CDC 6600 was the flagship of the 6000 series of mainframe computer systems manufactured by Control Data Corporation.
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Charles Epstein
Charles L. Epstein is a Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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Chauvenet Prize
The Chauvenet Prize is the highest award for mathematical expository writing.
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Complex analysis
Complex analysis, traditionally known as the theory of functions of a complex variable, is the branch of mathematical analysis that investigates functions of complex numbers.
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Computational science
Computational science (also scientific computing or scientific computation (SC)) is a rapidly growing multidisciplinary field that uses advanced computing capabilities to understand and solve complex problems.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (CIMS) is an independent division of New York University (NYU) under the Faculty of Arts & Science that serves as a center for research and advanced training in computer science and mathematics.
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Fluid dynamics
In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids - liquids and gases.
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Gábor Szegő
Gábor Szegő (January 20, 1895 – August 7, 1985) was a Hungarian mathematician.
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George Logemann
George Wahl Logemann (31 January 1938, Milwaukee, – 5 June 2012, Hartford) at www.legacy.com was an American mathematician and computer scientist.
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George Pólya
George Pólya (Pólya György; December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985) was a Hungarian mathematician.
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György Marx
György Marx (May 25, 1927, Budapest, Hungary – December 2, 2002, ibidem) was a Hungarian physicist, astrophysicist, science historian and professor.
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Helge Holden
Helge Holden (born 28 September 1956) is a Norwegian mathematician working in the field of Differential equations and Mathematical physics.
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Heriot-Watt University
Heriot-Watt University is a public university based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Honorary degree
An honorary degree, in Latin a degree honoris causa ("for the sake of the honor") or ad honorem ("to the honor"), is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, a dissertation and the passing of comprehensive examinations.
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Hungary
Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.
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Institute for Scientific Information
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was founded by Eugene Garfield in 1960.
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Integrable system
In the context of differential equations to integrate an equation means to solve it from initial conditions.
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James (Mac) Hyman
James Macklin "Mac" Hyman (born 1950) is an applied mathematician formerly at Los Alamos National Laboratory and currently at Tulane University in the United States.
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James Glimm
James Gilbert Glimm (born 24 March 1934) is an American mathematician, former president of the American Mathematical Society, and distinguished professor at Stony Brook University.
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Jeffrey Rauch
Jeffrey B. Rauch (born 29 November 1945, New York City) is an American mathematical physicist, specializing in partial differential equations.
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Jews
Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.
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John von Neumann
John von Neumann (Neumann János Lajos,; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, and polymath.
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John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing.
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Kingdom of Hungary
The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed from the Middle Ages into the twentieth century (1000–1946 with the exception of 1918–1920).
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Kurt Otto Friedrichs
Kurt Otto Friedrichs (September 28, 1901 – December 31, 1982) was a noted German American mathematician.
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Lax equivalence theorem
In numerical analysis, the Lax equivalence theorem is the fundamental theorem in the analysis of finite difference methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations.
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Lax pair
In mathematics, in the theory of integrable systems, a Lax pair is a pair of time-dependent matrices or operators that satisfy a corresponding differential equation, called the Lax equation.
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Lax–Friedrichs method
The Lax–Friedrichs method, named after Peter Lax and Kurt O. Friedrichs, is a numerical method for the solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations based on finite differences.
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Lax–Wendroff method
The Lax–Wendroff method, named after Peter Lax and Burton Wendroff, is a numerical method for the solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations, based on finite differences.
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Leo Szilard
Leo Szilard (Szilárd Leó; Leo Spitz until age 2; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-German-American physicist and inventor.
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Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 552,700, Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2.
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Lomonosov Gold Medal
The Lomonosov Gold Medal, named after Russian scientist and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov, is awarded each year since 1959 for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and the humanities by the USSR Academy of Sciences and later the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos or LANL for short) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory initially organized during World War II for the design of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.
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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.
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Mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in his or her work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
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Mathematics
Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.
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Matrix (mathematics)
In mathematics, a matrix (plural: matrices) is a rectangular array of numbers, symbols, or expressions, arranged in rows and columns.
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National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.
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National Medal of Science
The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics.
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New Mexico
New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.
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New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.
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Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics
The Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics is a $5000 prize awarded, every three years, for an outstanding contribution to "applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense." It was endowed in 1967 in honor of Norbert Wiener by MIT's mathematics department and is provided jointly by the American Mathematical Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
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Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway.
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Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Notices of the American Mathematical Society is the membership journal of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), published monthly except for the combined June/July issue.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is an American multiprogram science and technology national laboratory sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and administered, managed, and operated by UT-Battelle as a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) under a contract with the DOE.
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Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős (Erdős Pál; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician.
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Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award
The Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award (formerly known as the Lester R. Ford Award) is a $1,000 prize given annually by the Mathematical Association of America for authors of articles of expository excellence published in The American Mathematical Monthly or Mathematics Magazine.
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Phillip Colella
Phillip Colella is an American applied mathematician and the Head of the Applied Numerical Algorithms Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of mathematics published by the American Mathematical Society.
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Ralph S. Phillips
Ralph Saul Phillips (23 June 1913 – 23 November 1998) was an American mathematician and academic known for his contributions to functional analysis, scattering theory, and servomechanisms.
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Rózsa Péter
Rózsa Péter, born Politzer, (17 February 1905 – 16 February 1977) was a Hungarian mathematician and logician.
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Richard Courant
Richard Courant (January 8, 1888 – January 27, 1972) was a German American mathematician.
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Shock wave
In physics, a shock wave (also spelled shockwave), or shock, is a type of propagating disturbance.
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Soliton
In mathematics and physics, a soliton is a self-reinforcing solitary wave packet that maintains its shape while it propagates at a constant velocity.
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Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media or Springer, part of Springer Nature since 2015, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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Steve Alpern
Steve Alpern is a professor of Operational Research at the University of Warwick, where he recently moved after working for many years at the London School of Economics.
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Stuyvesant High School
Stuyvesant High School (pronounced) commonly referred to as Stuy (pronounced) is a specialized high school in New York City, United States.
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Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance compared to a general-purpose computer.
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Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University (Texas A&M or A&M) is a coeducational public research university in College Station, Texas, United States.
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The Martians (scientists)
"The Martians" were a group of prominent Hungarian scientists of Jewish descent (mostly, but not exclusively, physicists and mathematicians) who emigrated to the United States in the early half of the 20th century.
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Transcendental Students
Transcendental Students (TS) was a student activist and anarchist group created in 1969 at NYU in New York City.
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Tulane University
Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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Undercompressive shock wave
An undercompressive shock wave is a shock wave that does not fulfill the Peter Lax conditions.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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University of New Mexico
The University of New Mexico (also referred to as UNM) is a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Weak formulation
Weak formulations are important tools for the analysis of mathematical equations that permit the transfer of concepts of linear algebra to solve problems in other fields such as partial differential equations.
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Weather Underground
The Weather Underground Organization (WUO), commonly known as the Weather Underground, was an American militant radical left-wing organization founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan.
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Wolf Prize
The Wolf Prize is an international award granted in Israel, that has been presented most years since 1978 to living scientists and artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people...
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