MATHEMATICIAN

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Hadamard has received more than 358,144 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Jacques Hadamard is the 133rd most popular mathematician (up from 136th in 2019), the 1,000th most popular biography from France (up from 1,006th in 2019) and the 27th 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 133 out of 1,004. Before him are Ferdinand von Lindemann, Liu Hui, Étienne Bézout, Colin Maclaurin, Hermann of Reichenau, and Lodovico Ferrari. After him are Aloysius Lilius, Sophus Lie, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Oliver Heaviside, Ernst Kummer, and William Oughtred.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Jacques Hadamard ranks 26. Before him are Alfred Hugenberg, Benjamin Guggenheim, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Félix Vallotton, Amélie of Orléans, and Akseli Gallen-Kallela. After him are Gérard Encausse, Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Valentin Serov, Gabriel Narutowicz, Rashid Rida, and Mikao Usui. Among people deceased in 1963, Jacques Hadamard ranks 29. Before him are Thích Quảng Đức, Abd al-Karim Qasim, Carmen Amaya, Rajendra Prasad, Theodore von Kármán, and Oleg Penkovsky. After him are Richard Baer, Kurt Zeitzler, Józef Gosławski, Richard Barthelmess, Karl Bühler, and Georg-Hans Reinhardt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Hadamard ranks 1,000 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Nodier (1780), Jean Casimir-Perier (1847), Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (1802), Michèle Morgan (1920), Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1763), and Jacques Cassini (1677). After him are Jean Moulin (1899), Georges Brassens (1921), René Girard (1923), Pauline Viardot (1821), Leonard of Noblac (496), and Alice Guy-Blaché (1873).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Jacques Hadamard ranks 27. Before him are Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Charles Hermite (1822), Girard Desargues (1591), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Alexis Clairaut (1713), and Étienne Bézout (1730). After him are Émile Borel (1871), Henri Lebesgue (1875), Joseph Liouville (1809), Michel Rolle (1652), André Weil (1906), and Pierre Bouguer (1698).

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