Mathematician:Laurent-Moïse Schwartz

Mathematician
French mathematician who pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function.

Awarded the Fields Medal in $1950$ for his work on the theory of distributions.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 5 March 1915 in Paris, France
 * Died: 4 July 2002 in Paris, France

Theorems and Definitions

 * Schwartz Kernel Theorem


 * Schwartz Space
 * Schwartz Test Function‎
 * Schwartz-Bruhat Function (with )

Publications

 * 1968: Application of Distributions to the Theory of Elementary Particles in Quantum Mechanics
 * 1979: Analyse hilbertienne

Also known as
Some sources do not hyphenate, and do not bother with the diaeresis on the i of Moïse:
 * Laurent Moise Schwartz

Usually known just as Laurent Schwartz.