Definition:Fields Medal/Recipients/1950
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Recipients of the Fields Medal
The recipients of the Fields Medal in $1950$ were as follows:
| Recipient(s) | Citation |
|---|---|
| Laurent-Moïse Schwartz | Developed the theory of distributions, a new notion of generalized function motivated by the Dirac delta-function of theoretical physics. |
| Atle Selberg | Developed generalizations of the sieve methods of Viggo Brun; achieved major results on zeros of the Riemann zeta function; gave an elementary proof of the prime number theorem (with P. Erdős), with a generalization to prime numbers in an arbitrary arithmetic progression. |
Location of conference: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Sources
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Appendix $17$: Fields Medal winners
- 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Appendix $22$: Fields Medal winners