Laurent Schwartz
Laurent Schwartz | |
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| Born | 5 March 1915 Paris, France |
| Died | 4 July 2002 (aged 87) Paris, France |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
| Known for | Theory of Distributions Schwartz kernel theorem Schwartz space Schwartz–Bruhat function Radonifying operator Cylinder set measure |
| Awards | Fields Medal (1950) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Strasbourg University of Nancy University of Grenoble École Polytechnique Université de Paris VII |
| Doctoral advisor | Georges Valiron |
| 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 |
Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (French: [lɔʁɑ̃ mɔiz ʃvaʁts]; 5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002) 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.