Laurent Schwartz has won many prestigious awards for his contributions to mathematics, but his most influential work has been in the areas of functional analysis, integral calculus, and differential calculus. In particular, it was his work on the...

1915- French Mathematician French mathematician Laurent Schwartz is known primarily for his work in functional analysis and the theory of distributions, an expansion of concepts relating to differential and integral calculus. He won the Fields Medal in...

1915- French mathematician who received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1943 from University of Strasbourg. He taught at Grenoble, Nancy, and the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He is recognized for his theory of distributions in differential and integral...

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...

Laurent Schwartz, 87, a distinguished French mathematician who from the 1930s through the 1990s led a tumultuous life of involvement in public affairs, died July 4. The cause and location of his death could not be learned. As a mathematician, Dr. Schwartz was...

Interior designer Laurent Buttazzoni is Paris' darling of the day Laurent Buttazzoni is Paris fashion's interior designer du moment, and friend and client John Galliano reckons he knows why "He's very contemporary. He has a strong sense of proportion, he understands what's...