Mathematician:Laurent-Moïse Schwartz
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Mathematician
French mathematician who pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function.
Fields Medal
Laurent-Moïse Schwartz was awarded a Fields Medal in $\text {1950}$ at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA:
- Developed the theory of distributions, a new notion of generalized function motivated by the Dirac delta-function of theoretical physics.
Nationality
French
History
- Born: 5 March 1915 in Paris, France
- Died: 4 July 2002 in Paris, France
Theorems and Definitions
Results named for Laurent-Moïse Schwartz can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Laurent-Moïse Schwartz can be found here.
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.