Anneli Cahn Lax

Anneli Cahn Lax ( born February 23, 1922 in Katowice, † September 24, 1999 in New York City ) was an American mathematician, she was married to the mathematician Peter Lax.

Life

Anneli Cahn attended school in Berlin, but then had to flee as a Jew from Nazi Germany. So they came to the United States, where he studied from 1942 Mathematics at Adelphi University in New York and in 1955 received his doctorate at New York University with a thesis on Cauchy 's problem for a Partial Differential Equation with Real Multiple Characteristics of Richard Courant.

1948 married Anneli Cahn the mathematician Peter Lax. She was still active in the teaching and engaged in the publication program of the Mathematical Association of America. In 1977 she was awarded the George Pólya Award. In 1998 she was diagnosed with cancer, which she died in 1999.