Anneli Cahn Lax
Anneli Cahn Lax (born February 23, 1922 in Katowice , † September 24, 1999 in New York City ) was an American mathematician.
Life
Anneli Cahn attended school in Berlin , but then had to flee Nazi Germany as a Jew. So she came to the United States, where she studied mathematics from 1942 at Adelphi University in New York and received her doctorate from New York University in 1955 with the dissertation Cauchy's Problem for a Partial Differential Equation with Real Multiple Characteristics under Richard Courant .
In 1948 Anneli Cahn married the mathematician Peter Lax . She continued to teach and participate in the Mathematical Association of America's publications program . In 1977 she received the George Pólya Award . In 1998 she was diagnosed with cancer, to which she succumbed on September 24, 1999.
Individual evidence
- ^ Anneli Lax at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Anneli Cahn Lax at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lax, Anneli Cahn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Katowice , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 1999 |
| Place of death | New York City , New York |