Albert Schwarz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Albert Schwarz

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1934

Place of Birth: Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia

Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Albert Solomonovich Schwarz (; Russian: ?.
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The Schwarz genus, one of the fundamental notions of topological complexity, is named after him.
Schwarz worked on some examples in noncommutative geometry.
He is the "S" in the famous AKSZ model (named after Mikhail Alexandrov, Maxim Kontsevich, Schwarz, and Oleg Zaboronsky). In 1990, Schwarz was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto. He was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.