Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Jacques Hadamard

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French mathematician Jacques Hadamard.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Jacques Salomon Hadamard was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex analysis, differential geometry and partial differential equations.

French - Mathematician | December 8, 1865 - October 17, 1963

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

Jacques Hadamard

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

Jacques Hadamard

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

Jacques Hadamard

Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.

Jacques Hadamard

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

Jacques Hadamard

To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.

Jacques Hadamard

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Jacques Hadamard

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