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Jacques Hadamard
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French mathematician (1865–1963)
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Jacques Hadamard was a French mathematician, professor, and researcher. Born in Versailles in 1865, he worked in the fields of partial differential equations, number theory, mathematics, and mechanics. He was educated at Lycée Charlemagne, Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and the École Normale Supérieure. His academic career included positions at the Collège de France, Columbia University, École polytechnique, and the University of Paris.
Hadamard was a member of the Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He received the CNRS Gold medal, the Feltrinelli Prize, the Poncelet Prize, and the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. His doctoral students included André Weil, Maurice René Fréchet, Paul Pierre Lévy, and Szolem Mandelbrojt. He died in Paris in 1963 and was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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- Born
- 1865
- Died
- 1963
- Works
- 47
Top works
- Leçons de géométrie élémentaire ...
- L'oeuvre scientifique de Paul Painlevé
- [Pamphlets.]
- Henri Poincaré
- Subconscient institution et logique dans la recherche scientifique
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1865-12-08 ) 8 December 1865, Versailles , France
- Died
- 17 October 1963 (1963-10-17) (aged 97), Paris, France
- Alma mater
- École Normale Supérieure
- Known for
- Hadamard product , Proof of prime number theorem , Hadamard matrices , Hadamard's maximal determinant problem
- Awards
- Grand Prix des Sciences Mathématiques (1892), Prix Poncelet (1898) , CNRS Gold medal (1956)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Bordeaux , Sorbonne , Collège de France , École Polytechnique , École Centrale Paris
- Thesis
- Essai sur l'étude des fonctions données par leur développement de Taylor (1892)
- Doctoral advisor
- C. Émile Picard , Jules Tannery
- Doctoral students
- Maurice René Fréchet , Marc Krasner , Paul Lévy , Szolem Mandelbrojt , André Weil
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jacques
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Versailles
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Lycée Charlemagne
- Employer
- University of Bordeaux
- Languages spoken
- French
- Doctoral advisor
- Jules Tannery
- Student of
- Charles Émile Picard
- Field of work
- functional analysis
- Image
- Hadamard retouched.jpg
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- member of
- Romanian Academy
- date of birth
- 1865-12-08
- date of death
- 1963-10-17
- Commons category
- Jacques Hadamard
- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
- name in native language
- Jacques Hadamard
- writing language
- French
- student
- Anton Davidoglu
- relative
- Laurent Schwartz
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Jacques Salomon Hadamard ForMemRS ( French: [adamaʁ]; 8 December 1865 – 17 October 1963) was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex analysis, differential geometry, and partial differential equations.
Biography
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