Awards & Winners

Laurent Schwartz

Date of Birth 05-March-1915
Place of Birth Paris
(ÃŽle-de-France, France, Seine)
Nationality France, Germany
Profession Mathematician
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. For a long time he taught at the École polytechnique. Apart from his scientific work, he was a well-known outspoken intellectual.

Awards by Laurent Schwartz

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1950


Fields Medal
(He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function.)