Laurent Schwartz

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French mathematician human mathematician

Laurent Schwartz was a French mathematician renowned for developing the theory of distributions, which revolutionized functional analysis and partial differential equations.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French mathematician → human → mathematician →
awardReceived	CNRS Gold Medal → Fields Medal → Prix Poncelet → Prix de l’Académie des Sciences →
birthCountry	France →
birthDate	1915-03-05 →
birthPlace	Paris →
citizenship	France →
countryOfDeath	France →
deathDate	2002-07-04 →
doctoralAdvisor	Georges Valiron →
doctoralStudent	Alexander Grothendieck → Bernard Malgrange → François Bruhat → Jacques-Louis Lions →
educatedAt	University of Strasbourg NERFINISHED → École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED →
employer	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique → University of Nancy NERFINISHED → École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED → École Polytechnique NERFINISHED →
familyName	Schwartz →
fieldOfWork	functional analysis → mathematics → partial differential equations →
givenName	Laurent →
knownFor	applications of distributions to partial differential equations → distribution theory in functional analysis → theory of distributions →
languageOfWorkOrName	French →
memberOf	Académie des Sciences → Bourbaki group → French Academy of Sciences →
movement	Bourbaki →
name	Laurent Schwartz →
nationality	France →
notableIdea	generalized functions → tempered distributions →
notableWork	Théorie des distributions →
placeOfDeath	Paris →
politicalActivity	anti-colonialism → human rights activism → support for Algerian independence →
positionHeld	professor of mathematics →
relative	Paul Lévy →
spouse	Marie-Hélène Lévy →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alexander Grothendieck →	doctoralAdvisor
École Polytechnique →	hasAlumnus
Laurent Schwartz →	name