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L. Schwarz

Laurent Schwartz
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Born (1915-03-05)5 March 1915
Paris, France
Died 4 July 2002(2002-07-04) (aged 87)
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 advisor Georges Valiron
Doctoral students Maurice Audin
Bernard Beauzamy
Georges Glaeser
Alexander Grothendieck
Jacques-Louis Lions
Bernard Malgrange
André Martineau
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
Influenced Per Enflo
Notable awards Fields Medal (1950)

Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (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. For several years he taught at the École polytechnique.

Laurent Schwartz came from a Jewish family of Alsatian origin, with a strong scientific background: his father was a well-known surgeon, his uncle Robert Debré (who contributed to the creation of UNICEF) was a famous pediatrician, and his great-uncle-in-law, Jacques Hadamard, was a famous mathematician.

During his training at Lycée Louis-le-Grand to enter the École Normale Supérieure, he fell in love with Marie-Hélène Lévy, daughter of the probabilist Paul Lévy who was then teaching at the École polytechnique. Later they would have two children, Marc-André and Claudine. Marie-Hélène was gifted in mathematics as well, as she contributed to the geometry of singular analytic spaces and taught at the University of Lille.

Angelo Guerraggio describes "Mathematics, politics and butterflies" as his "three great loves".

Schwartz was a distant relative of oncologist Laurent Henri Schwartz.


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