Albert Solomonovich Schwarz[1] (/ʃwɔːrts/ SHWORTS; Russian: Альберт Соломонович Шварц; born June 24, 1934) is a Soviet and American mathematician and a theoretical physicist educated in the Soviet Union and now a professor at the University of California, Davis.
Schwarz was born in Kazan to Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Soviet Union.
[2] Schwarz studied under Vadim Yefremovich at Ivanovo Pedagogical Institute, having been denied admittance to Moscow State University on the grounds that he was the son of "enemies of the people.
[6] The Schwarz genus, one of the fundamental notions of topological complexity, is named after him.
He is the "S" in the AKSZ model (named after Mikhail Alexandrov, Maxim Kontsevich, Schwarz, and Oleg Zaboronski).