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Laurent Schwartz

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French mathematician (1915-2002)

FranceAcademicsLived 1915 to 2002 · aged 87
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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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1997Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award
1964Grand prix des sciences mathématiques
1964Prix de l'Etat
1950Fields medal
1946Prix Francoeur
1945Cours Peccot
1934Concours général

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France
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Academics
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Lived 1915 to 2002 · aged 87
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