Quote of the day
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
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)