Laurent Schwartz
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... Wikipedia
- Born: March 05, 1915, Paris, France
- Age at death: 87 years
- Died: July 04, 2002, Paris, France
- Nationality: French
- Fields: Mathematics
- Institutions: University of Strasbourg, University of Nancy, University of Grenoble, École Polytechnique, Université de Paris VII
- Alma mater: École Normale Supérieure
- Doctoral students: Maurice Audin, Georges Glaeser, Alexander Grothendieck, Jacques-Louis Lions, Bernard Malgrange, André Martineau, Bernard Maurey, Leopoldo Nachbin, Henri Hogbe Nlend, Gilles Pisier, François Treves
- Known for: Theory of Distributions, Schwartz kernel theorem, Schwartz space, Schwartz–Bruhat function, Radonifying operator, Cylinder set measure
- Notable awards: Fields Medal (1950)
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