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Laurent-Moïse Schwartz ( French: [ʃvaʁts]; 5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002) 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.
Laurent Schwartz was a French mathematician who is best known for his work in the theory of distributions. View five larger pictures. Biography. Laurent Schwartz came from a Jewish background.
Jun 30, 2024 · Laurent Schwartz was a French mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work in functional analysis. Schwartz received his early education at the École Normale Supérieure (now part of the Universities of Paris) and the Faculty of Science, both located in Paris.
The theory of distributions was introduced by Laurent Schwartz in the 1940s—based on the theory of (locally convex) topological vector spaces—to provide a firm foundation for a theory of generalized functions, such as the Dirac \delta δ -function.
Laurent Schwartz is known for his political activism. According to himself his strong left wing opinions are guided by his desire to be as rigorous and logical in politics as in mathematics. This explains the influence of his mathematics on his political ideas.
Laurent Schwartz, who has died aged 87, was the ideal of the French intellectual. The undisputed master of his subject, everywhere respected as a very great mathematician, he had been a student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and became a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique.
Laurent Schwartz (born 1915) graduated in mathematics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1937. After military service he began his research in 1940 in the Strasbourg science faculty which had fled to Clermont-Ferrand during the German occupation.
Mathematician who put the quantum physicists straight, but could not quite manage the same trick with politicians. Laurent Schwartz, mathematician, was born on March 5, 1915. He died on July 4, 2002, aged 87. "To discover something in mathematics is to overcome an inhibition and a tradition.
Laurent Schwartz is one of the most remarkable intellects of the 20th century. His discovery of distributions, one of the most beautiful theories in mathematics, earned him a 1950...
Angelo Guerraggio. Mathematics, politics and butterflies were the three great loves of Laurent Schwartz, “father” of distributions, political militant unfailingly committed to the elimination of all oppression, and extraordinary butterfly “hunter” (with a collec-tion of over 20,000 specimens).
