MATHEMATICIAN

Laurent Schwartz

1915 - 2002

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Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (French: [ʃvaʁts]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laurent Schwartz has received more than 258,549 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Laurent Schwartz is the 199th most popular mathematician (down from 197th in 2019), the 1,393rd most popular biography from France (up from 1,430th in 2019) and the 41st 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 199 out of 1,004. Before him are Gabriel Lamé, Theaetetus, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Al-Khazini, Giovanni Ceva, and Al-Karaji. After him are Pedro Nunes, Theodorus of Cyrene, Richard von Mises, Paul Guldin, Tullio Levi-Civita, and Paolo Ruffini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Laurent Schwartz ranks 43. Before him are Chung Ju-yung, Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, Bob Kane, Franz Josef Strauss, Mario Del Monaco, and Robert A. Dahl. After him are Rashid Behbudov, Denis Thatcher, Mario Monicelli, Modibo Keïta, Takahito, Prince Mikasa, and Terence Young. Among people deceased in 2002, Laurent Schwartz ranks 51. Before him are Xi Zhongxun, Victor Weisskopf, María Félix, Sigvard Bernadotte, Yoshio Okada, and Cornelis Johannes van Houten. After him are César Milstein, Eduardo Chillida, Mauro Ramos, Stephen Jay Gould, Henri Verneuil, and Hugo Banzer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Laurent Schwartz ranks 1,393 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Dutilleux (1916), Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine (1670), Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711), Bertrade de Montfort (1070), François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville (1818), and Vincent of Beauvais (1190). After him are Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle (1712), Renata of Lorraine (1544), Jacques Laffite (1943), Jean-Luc Nancy (1940), Jacques Balmat (1762), and François Joseph Lefebvre (1755).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Laurent Schwartz ranks 41. Before him are Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Camille Jordan (1838), Jean-Pierre Serre (1926), Édouard Lucas (1842), Jean Gaston Darboux (1842), and Gabriel Lamé (1795). After him are Étienne-Louis Malus (1775), Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Michel Chasles (1793), Henri Cartan (1904), Pierre Varignon (1654), and Élie Cartan (1869).

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