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- 1915-03-05
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- 2002-07-04
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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.
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1915 births2002 deaths20th-century French mathematicians20th-century French zoologistsAcademic staff of Grenoble Alpes UniversityAcademic staff of the University of LorraineAcademic staff of the University of ParisÉcole normale supérieure (Paris) alumniFields MedalistsFrench atheistsFrench entomologistsFrench people of Jewish descent