Laurent Schwartz
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 calculus. In 1950 he received the Fields Medal for work in the theory of distributions. He has received many professional awards and is a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences.
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