Laurent Schwartz
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 22 years ago |
Date of birth | March 5,1915 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Born | Paris |
France | |
Date of died | July 4,2002 |
Died | Paris |
France | |
Field | Mathematics |
Parents | Claire Debré |
Anselme Schwartz | |
Current partner | Marie-Hélène Schwartz |
Children | Marc-André Schwartz |
Awards | Fields Medal |
Known for | Distribution |
Education | École Normale Supérieure |
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ID | 673543 |
Laurent Schwartz Life story
Laurent-Moïse Schwartz was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions. For several years he taught at the École polytechnique.