Jacques Hadamard
Jacques Hadamard ForMemRS | |
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Hadamard c. 1950 | |
| Born | 8 December 1865 Versailles, France |
| Died | 17 October 1963 (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) |
| 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 Jules Tannery |
Doctoral students | Maurice René Fréchet Marc Krasner Paul Lévy Szolem Mandelbrojt André Weil |
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Jacques Salomon Hadamard (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.