Laurent Schwartz
Laurent Schwartz · Science & Medicine
Distribution Theory in Mathematics
1915, Paris, France — 2002, Paris, France
France (Paris · Nancy · École polytechnique)
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Born into an Alsatian Jewish family, Schwartz hid under a false identity in Vichy France before developing the theory of distributions, which gave rigorous mathematical meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta and unified differential equations with physics. For this he received the Fields Medal in 1950, the first French mathematician so honored.
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Source: Fields Medal 1950
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Distribution Theory in Mathematics
Source: Fields Medal 1950
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