A mathematician grappling with his century (Mathématicien aux prises avec le siecle)
[Book]
Laurent Schwartz ; translated from the French by Leila Schneps.
Basel ; Boston
Birkhäuser
2001
VIII, 490 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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.
Matematika története -- francia -- biográfia.
Laurent Schwartz ; translated from the French by Leila Schneps.