Laurent schwartz autobiography of mission
This latest documentary comic focuses on Laurent Schwartz, the first French mathematician to win the Fields Medal in for his work on distribution theory..
Laurent Schwartz
French mathematician (1915–2002)
Not to be confused with Hermann Schwarz or Laurent Schwarz (artist).
Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (French:[lɔʁɑ̃mɔizʃvaʁts]; 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.
Laurent Schwartz wrote a very interesting and readable autobiography, where his political involvement is discussed in detail: "A.
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.
Biography
Family
Laurent Schwartz came from a Jewish family of Alsatian origin, with a strong scientific background: his father was a well-known surgeon, his uncle Robert Debré (who contributed to the creation of UNICEF) was a famous pediatrician, and his great-uncle-in-law, Jacques Hadamard, was a famous mathematician.
During his training at Lycée Louis-le-Grand to enter the École Normale Supérieure, he fell in love with Marie-Hélène Lévy, daughter of the probabilist Paul Lévy w