Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Laurent Schwartz
Born: March 5, 1915
Died: July 4, 2002 (aged 87)
Bio: Laurent-Moïse Schwartz was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function.
Known for:
- Mathematics for the Physical Sciences (1966)
- Geometry and probability in Banach spaces (1981)
- Cancer: A Dysmethylation Syndrome ?
- Seminar Schwartz (1973)