Laurent Schwartz
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| Born | March 5, 1915 Paris, France |
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| Died | July 4, 2002 (aged 87) Paris, France |
Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (5 March 1915 in Paris – 4 July 2002 in Paris) was a French mathematician.
Among other teaching positions, he taught at École Polytechnique from 1959 to 1980.
His considerable mathematical work, including the theory of distributions, won him the Fields Medal in 1950.
Apart from his scientific work, he was a well-known outspoken intellectual. Leaning towards communism, he refused Stalin's totalitarianism. He campaigned against the Algerian War.
Being a Jew, he had to spend parts of WWII in hiding under aliases, predominantly "Laurent Sélimartin". He was related to the Debré family.
[edit] References
- Schwartz, Laurent (2001). A Mathematician Grappling with His Century. Birkhauser. ISBN 3-7643-6052-6. A translation in English of Laurent Schwartz's autobiography, Un mathématicien aux prises avec le siècle, originally published in 1997.
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Laurent Schwartz”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Biography of Laurent Schwartz from the American Mathematical Society
- Review of Schwartz's autobiography, same source
- Laurent Schwartz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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