Background
Lax, Anneli was born on February 23, 1922 in Kattowitz, Germany. Naturalized in the United States.
Lax, Anneli was born on February 23, 1922 in Kattowitz, Germany. Naturalized in the United States.
Bachelor of Science, Adelphi College, 1942; Master of Arts, New York University, 1945; Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1955.
In 1942 she earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at Adelphi University in Long Island and in 1955 a PhD from New York University with the dissertation Cauchy's Problem for a Partial Differential Equation with Real Multiple Characteristics with thesis advisor Richard Courant. She became a mathematics professor at NYU and was the editor of the Mathematics Association of America's New Mathematical Library Series. In 1998 she was diagnosed with cancer and died from the disease in 1999.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association American (Yueh-Gin Gung and Doctor Charles Hu award for distinguished service 1995).
Married, 1948; 2 children.