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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