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Laurent Schwartz

French mathematician (1915-2002)

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Born
March 5, 1915
Died
July 4, 2002
Zodiac sign
Pisces
Birth year
1915

About Laurent Schwartz

Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (French: [lɔʁɑ̃ mɔiz ʃvaʁts]; 5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002) was a French mathematician who received the Fields Medal in 1950 for pioneering the theory of distributions or generalized functions, giving a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. For several years he taught at the École polytechnique. In 1965 he established the Centre de mathématiques Laurent-Schwartz (CMLS) as its first director. At the 1950 International Congress of Mathematicians in Cambridge (Massachusetts), Schwartz was a plenary speaker and was awarded the Fields Medal for his work on distributions. Several species discovered by Schwartz bear his name. In 1958 he became a teacher at the École polytechnique after having at first refused this position.

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Laurent Schwartz timeline

  1. At the 1950 International Congress of Mathematicians in Cambridge (Massachusetts), Schwartz was a plenary speaker and was awarded the Fields Medal for his work on distributions.
  2. In 1958 he became a teacher at the École polytechnique after having at first refused this position.
  3. In 1965 he established the Centre de mathématiques Laurent-Schwartz (CMLS) as its first director.

The world when Laurent Schwartz was born

Laurent Schwartz was born in 1915. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1915

  • Top movieThe Birth of a Nation
  • Best-selling book"The Turmoil" – Booth Tarkington

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentJess Willard defeats Jack Johnson for heavyweight title in Havana
  • Top headlineLusitania sunk by German submarine — 1,198 die
  • Technology milestoneFirst transcontinental telephone call (Bell to Watson)
  • World population~1.75B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
  • U.S. population98.4M

1915 versus 2026

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Measure19152026
Gas$0.25$3.45/gal
Movie ticket$0.10$11.95
Population98.4M341 million

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