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Jacques Hadamard was a French mathematician born on December 8, 1865, and died on October 17, 1963. He made significant contributions to mathematical analysis, complex analysis, and partial differential equations.

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“Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?”

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“The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.”

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“The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.”

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“Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.”

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Book:An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field

Source: An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field

About the Author

Born: December 8, 1865
Died: October 17, 1963
Known for: Mathematician
Quotes: 6

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