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Laurent Schwartz
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Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002) was a French mathematician, university teacher, and entomologist. He was educated at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly and the École Normale Supérieure. His professional career included positions at the University of Paris, Grenoble Alpes University, the National Center for Scientific Research, and the École polytechnique. He served as president and was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
Schwartz received the Fields Medal and the Concours général. His work focused on distributions and mathematics. He was the doctoral advisor to Alexander Grothendieck, André Martineau, Jacques-Louis Lions, and Georges Glaeser. His doctoral advisor was Georges Valiron. He was married to Marie-Hélène Schwartz and died in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He was related to Paul Pierre Lévy, Robert Debré, Jacques Hadamard, Michel Debré, and was recognized in the Fields Medal collection.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1915-03-05 ) 5 March 1915, Paris , France
- Died
- 4 July 2002 (2002-07-04) (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)
- 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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Schwartz
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Paris
- Spouse
- Marie-Hélène Schwartz
- Occupation
- entomologist
- Position held
- president
- Educated at
- Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
- Political party
- Unified Socialist Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- distribution
- Doctoral advisor
- Georges Valiron
- Image
- LaurentSchwartz.jpg
- Political ideology
- Trotskyism
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- date of birth
- 1915-03-05
- date of death
- 2002-07-04
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Erdős number
- 4
- Commons category
- Laurent Schwartz
- name in native language
- Laurent Schwartz
- different from
- Hermann Schwarz
- relative
- Michel Debré
- birth name
- Laurent Moise Schwartz
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
- pseudonym
- Laurent-Marie Sélimartin
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P8168
- Stroine
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Encyclopedic overview
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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