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Jacques Hadamard

1865 - 1963

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Hadamard is the 128th most popular mathematician (up from 133rd in 2019), the 841st most popular biography from France (up from 1,000th in 2019) and the 26th most popular French Mathematician.

Jacques Hadamard is most famous for his book "An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field" which he published in 1945. This book was the first of its kind to study the psychology of mathematical invention.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jacques Hadamard ranks 128 out of 1,004. Before him are G. H. Hardy, Nicomachus, Brook Taylor, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Hippocrates of Chios, and Paul Ehrenfest. After him are Lodovico Ferrari, Maurice René Fréchet, Charles Hermite, Émile Borel, Theon of Alexandria, and Andrew Wiles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Jacques Hadamard ranks 21. Before him are Sven Hedin, Wilfrid Voynich, Paul Dukas, Philipp Scheidemann, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, and Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. After him are John Mott, Félix Vallotton, Andranik, Benjamin Guggenheim, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, and Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg. Among people deceased in 1963, Jacques Hadamard ranks 29. Before him are Nâzım Hikmet, Carmen Amaya, Abd al-Karim Qasim, J. D. Tippit, Herbert Spencer Gasser, and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. After him are Richard Baer, Richard Barthelmess, Rajendra Prasad, Theodore von Kármán, Kurt Zeitzler, and Karl Bühler.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Hadamard ranks 841 out of 6,770. Before him are Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (1676), Henry, Count of Portugal (1066), Nicolas Fouquet (1615), Antoine-Jean Gros (1771), Henri Lefebvre (1901), and Henri Fantin-Latour (1836). After him are Pierre Loti (1850), Marina Vlady (1938), Ivo of Kermartin (1253), Auguste Mariette (1821), Lorin Maazel (1930), and Félix Guattari (1930).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jacques Hadamard ranks 26. Before him are Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Émile Picard (1856), Alexis Clairaut (1713), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), and Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788). After him are Maurice René Fréchet (1878), Charles Hermite (1822), Émile Borel (1871), Henri Lebesgue (1875), Gabriel Lamé (1795), and Joseph Liouville (1809).

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