As the computer age dawned, he saw how the new technology could be harnessed to mathematics to solve problems in everything from designing weapons to predicting the weather.
He came to the USA as a refugee from Hungary in 1941 at age 15.
By age 18 he was already doing work for the Manhattan Project.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/peter-lax-dead.html