Jacques Hadamard

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Jacques Hadamard was a prominent French mathematician known for his fundamental contributions to number theory, complex analysis, and partial differential equations, including the prime number theorem and the concept of well-posed problems.

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instanceOf French mathematician
human
mathematician
awardReceived Bordin Prize
Grand Prix of the French Academy of Sciences
surface form: Grand Prix des Sciences Mathématiques

Poncelet Prize
birthDate 1865-12-08
birthPlace Versailles
surface form: Versailles, France
countryOfCitizenship France
deathDate 1963-10-17
deathPlace Paris
surface form: Paris, France
educatedAt University of Paris NERFINISHED
École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED
employer Collège de France NERFINISHED
Sorbonne NERFINISHED
École Polytechnique NERFINISHED
familyName Jacques Hadamard self-linksurface differs
surface form: Hadamard
fieldOfWork complex analysis
differential geometry
functional analysis
mathematics
number theory
partial differential equations
givenName Jacques
influenced 20th-century analysis
the development of modern PDE theory
the mathematical theory of prime distribution
knownFor Weierstrass factorization theorem
surface form: Hadamard factorization theorem

Hadamard inequality
Hadamard matrices
Hadamard product (of power series)
Hadamard three-circle theorem
Cauchy problem
surface form: Hadamard well-posedness

Hadamard’s example of ill-posed problems
contributions to the calculus of variations
contributions to the theory of determinants
contributions to the theory of entire functions
contributions to the theory of partial differential equations
prime number theorem
work on geodesics and negative curvature
memberOf Académie des Sciences
Académie des Sciences
surface form: French Academy of Sciences
name Jacques Hadamard self-link
notableIdea definition of well-posed problems in mathematical physics
use of complex analysis in number theory
notableWork Essai sur l’étude des fonctions données par leur développement de Taylor
Taylor series
surface form: La série de Taylor et son prolongement analytique

Lectures on Cauchy’s problem in linear partial differential equations
Leçons sur la propagation des ondes et les équations de l’hydrodynamique
positionHeld professor of mathematics

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École Polytechnique hasAlumnus Jacques Hadamard
Jacques Hadamard name Jacques Hadamard self-link