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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
" "To discover something in mathematics is to overcome an inhibition and a tradition. You cannot move forward if you are not subversive.
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About Laurent Schwartz
Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002) was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on the theory of distributions. For several years he taught at the École polytechnique.
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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.
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