Jacques Hadamard
French mathematician (1865–1963) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jacques Salomon Hadamard ForMemRS[2] (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.[3][4][5]
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Born | (1865-12-08)8 December 1865 Versailles, France |
Died | 17 October 1963(1963-10-17) (aged 97) Paris, France |
Nationality | French |
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) |
Scientific career | |
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[1] Jules Tannery |
Doctoral students | Maurice René Fréchet Marc Krasner Paul Lévy Szolem Mandelbrojt André Weil |
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