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Laurent Schwartz

Laurent Schwartz
Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician and academic (d. 2002)

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 on the theory of distributions. For several years he taught at the École polytechnique.

5 March 1915

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