Laurent Schwartz

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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Lifespan
1915 – 2002
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Career Journey

Background

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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