Laurent schwarz child artist
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Paris, France
Paris, France
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Laurent Schwartz came from a Jewish background. His father Anselme Schwartz (1872-1957) was born in Balbronn, near Westhoffen, in Alsace shortly after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 which resulted in Alsace being annexed by Germany. He was French and did not like the idea of living in Germany so, at the age of fourteen he left his home town and went to Paris where he became a surgeon. He married his first cousin, Claire Debré (1888-1972), the daughter of a rabbi, in 1907. Although Anselme was brought up in the Jewish faith, he became an atheist and brought his children up as atheists. Their family contained many brilliant people such as Claire's brother, Professor Robert Debré (1882-1978), the founder of Unicef, and Robert Debré's son Michel Debré (1912-1996), who became a highly successful politician being Prime Minister of France in 1959-62. There was als- •
Laurent Schwartz
Mathematician who put the quantum physicists straight, but could not quite manage the same trick with politicians
Laurent Schwartz, mathematician, was born on March 5, 1915. He died on July 4, 2002, aged 87."To discover something in mathematics is to overcome an inhibition and a tradition. You cannot move forward if you are not subversive." Both the public life and the research of the French mathematician Laurent Schwartz eloquently bear out these much-quoted words from his 1997 book of memoirs, Un mathematicien aux prises avec le siecle. The first French winner of the Fields Medal, his discipline's equivalent of a Nobel Prize, he also made numerous interventions in his country's civic and political life, never fearing to upset the powers that-be in his responses to France's war in Algeria or in his views on education.
Schwartz was one of the 20th century's greatest exponents of mathematical analysis, the part of pure mathematics dealing with limiting operations such as the calculus and its ramifications. His most important contribution was his theory of
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Laurent Schwartz
French mathematician (1915–2002)
Not to be confused with Hermann Schwarz or Laurent Schwarz (artist).
Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (French:[lɔʁɑ̃mɔizʃvaʁts]; 5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002) was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions. For several years he taught at the École polytechnique.
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Family
Laurent Schwartz came from a Jewish family of Alsatian origin, with a strong scientific background: his father was a well-known surgeon, his uncle Robert Debré (who contributed to the creation of UNICEF) was a famous pediatrician, and his great-uncle-in-law, Jacques Hadamard, was a famous mathematician.
During his training at Lycée Louis-le-Grand to enter the École Normale Supérieure, he fell in love with Marie-Hélène Lévy, daughter of the probabilist Paul Lévy who was then teaching at the École polytechnique. They married in 1938. Later they had tw
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