Laurent Schwartz
Laurent-Moïse Schwartz was a French mathematician who received the Fields Medal in 1950 for pioneering the theory of distributions or generalized functions, giving a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. For several years he taught at the École polytechnique.
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- Born in
- Paris
- Educated at
- École Normale SupérieureLycée Janson-de-Sailly
- Awards
- 🏆 Fields medal🏆 Concours général🏆 Grand prix des sciences mathématiques
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Georges Valiron
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Alexander Grothendieck📖 Gilles Pisier
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1915
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