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To discover something in mathematics is to overcome an inhibition and a tradition. You cannot move forward if you are not subversive.

Laurent Schwartz

Trotskyism gave me … a remarkable education, clearly more advanced and sophisticated than that of most youngsters of my age. But by the extremism and sectarianism of its ideas, and by its stereotyped language, it neutralised me during the occupation. My judgment remains extremely severe on my own actions as well as those of the majority of the Trotskyist party during that period.

Laurent Schwartz

I have always thought that morality in politics was something essential, just like feelings and affinities.

Laurent Schwartz

Laurent Schwartz

Laurent Schwartz

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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)

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