Laurent Schwartz
French mathematician
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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... Wikipedia
Born: March 5, 1915, Paris, France
Died: July 4, 2002 (age 87 years), Paris, France
Education: École Normale Supérieure (1934–1937), Janson de Sailly School (1934), École normale supérieure, and more
Awards: Fields Medal
Children: Marc-André Schwartz
Parents: Claire Debré and Anselme Schwartz
