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Laurent Schwartz

Political Commitment and Mathematical Rigour

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Mathematics, politics and butterflies were the three great loves of Laurent Schwartz, “father” of distributions, political militant unfailingly committed to the elimination of all oppression, and extraordinary butterfly “hunter” (with a collection of over 20,000 specimens).

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  1. Centro PRISTEM, Università Bocconi, Via Sraffa 11, 20136, Milano, Italy

    Angelo Guerraggio

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  1. Dipto. Matematica, Università Genova, Via Dodecaneso 35, Genova, 16146, Italy

    Claudio Bartocci

  2. Dipto. Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonarda da Vinci 32, Milano, 20133, Italy

    Renato Betti

  3. Centro PRISTEM, Università Bocconi, Piazza Sraffa 11, Milano, 20136, Italy

    Angelo Guerraggio

  4. , Dipto. Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milano, 20133, Italy

    Roberto Lucchetti

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Guerraggio, A. (2011). Laurent Schwartz. In: Bartocci, C., Betti, R., Guerraggio, A., Lucchetti, R. (eds) Mathematical Lives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13606-1_22

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