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Laurent Schwartz

1915 - 2002

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Laurent Schwartz is the 222nd most popular mathematician (down from 199th in 2019), the 1,369th most popular biography from France (up from 1,393rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular French Mathematician.

Laurent Schwartz is most famous for his work in differential geometry, specifically his work on the Ricci curvature.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Laurent Schwartz ranks 222 out of 1,004. Before him are Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Pierre Bouguer, Thomas Abbt, Hermann Schwarz, Robert Aumann, and Pedro Nunes. After him are Martin Kutta, Tullio Levi-Civita, Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Pierre Varignon, and Helge von Koch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Laurent Schwartz ranks 52. Before him are Mario Del Monaco, Prince George William of Hanover, Bob Kane, Takeshi Kamo, Franz Josef Strauss, and Chung Ju-yung. After him are Shoichi Yokoi, Shogo Kamo, Liisi Oterma, Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, Rashid Behbudov, and Joseph Greenberg. Among people deceased in 2002, Laurent Schwartz ranks 55. Before him are René Thom, Cyrus Vance, Sigvard Bernadotte, Aileen Wuornos, Pim Fortuyn, and Agatha Barbara. After him are César Milstein, Lilian, Princess of Réthy, María Félix, Shigeo Sugimoto, Hugo Banzer, and Mauro Ramos.

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In France

Among people born in France, Laurent Schwartz ranks 1,369 out of 6,770. Before him are Hubert Robert (1733), Theobald III, Count of Champagne (1179), Guillaume Budé (1467), Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve (1685), Joan, Countess of Flanders (1200), and Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927). After him are André Campra (1660), Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier (1742), John of Matha (1150), Marie Anne de Bourbon (1666), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), and Louis Vierne (1870).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Laurent Schwartz ranks 46. Before him are Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Camille Jordan (1838), René Thom (1923), André Weil (1906), Élie Cartan (1869), and Pierre Bouguer (1698). After him are Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Pierre Varignon (1654), Michel Chasles (1793), Henri Cartan (1904), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), and Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735).

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