Laurent Schwartz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Laurent Schwartz

French mathematician

Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1915

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 04-Jul-2002

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, entomologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (French: [?va?ts]; 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.