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Material Type: | Biography |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Laurent Schwartz |
ISBN: | 3764360526 9783764360528 0817660526 9780817660529 |
OCLC Number: | 909300863 |
Description: | VIII, 490 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: The Garden of Eden.- I The Revelation of Mathematics.- II A Student at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Love.- III Trotskyist.- IV A Researcher in the War.- V The War Against the Jews.- VI The Invention of Distributions.- VII Militating, Teaching, Research.- VIII International Recognition.- IX The Algerian Involvement.- X For an Independent Viet-Nam.- XI The Distant War in Afghanistan.- XII The Committee of Mathematicians. |
Responsibility: | Laurent Schwartz ; translated from the French by Leila Schneps. |
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"Laurent Schwartz is a strategist of ideas, within mathematics and without. He is a great communicator who has drawn huge audiences and conveyed to them the fragrance of research, or the joy of teaching, or the value of freedom. His is a mind whose company is never dull. He belongs to the great libertarian tradition of France. And his book has the very French characteristic of giving serious consideration to the life of the intellect. No man's life can be encompassed in one telling, yet the spirit of the man and his times are well caught in his autobiography." -Notices of the AMS (on the French edition)"The chapters of Laurent Schwartz's autobiography are . . . filled with rich descriptions of events and the 'players.' His development as a mathematician and active member of the international mathematical community was a fascinating journey, aptly conveyed with a writing style that really gives the reader the feel of a fellow traveler."-MAA Online (on the English edition) Read more...

