# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:38:38.118Z

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name: "Laurent Schwartz"
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description: "Laurent-Moïse Schwartz 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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birthDate: "1915-03-05"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump