Mathematicians

Jacques Hadamard

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Also Known As Jacques Salomon Hadamard

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General Reference

Mathematics Atlas. "Jacques Hadamard." Accessed August 29, 2026. https://dev-mathematics.interactiveatlas.org/mathematicians/jacques-hadamard.

APA Style

Mathematics Atlas. (n.d.). Jacques Hadamard. Retrieved August 29, 2026, from https://dev-mathematics.interactiveatlas.org/mathematicians/jacques-hadamard

BibTeX

@misc{mathematicsatlas-jacques-hadamard,
  author = {Mathematics Atlas},
  title = {Jacques Hadamard},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-mathematics.interactiveatlas.org/mathematicians/jacques-hadamard},
  note = {Accessed August 29, 2026}
}

Jacques Hadamard was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex analysis, differential geometry, and partial differential equations, and who proved the prime number theorem in 1896.

Facts

Birth Date

1865-12-08 1

Birth Year

1865 1

Death Date

1963-10-17 1

Death Year

1963 1

Birthplace

Versailles, France 1

Death Place

Paris, France 1

Nationality / Culture

French 1

Defining Contribution

Hadamard proved the prime number theorem in 1896 using complex function theory, independently of Charles-Jean de la Vallee Poussin's proof the same year. 2

Notable Work

Proved the prime number theorem (1896), independently of Charles-Jean de la Vallee Poussin. 1

Award

Bordin Prize (1896); Prix Poncelet (1898); elected to the Academie des Sciences (1912); Fellow of the Royal Society (1932); CNRS Gold Medal (1956). 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Branch

Analytic Number Theory

Proofs Credited

Prime Number Theorem

Source Prime Number Theorem (Wikipedia)

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was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex analysis, differential geometry, and partial differential equations

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Jacques Salomon Hadamard (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.

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Hadamard proved the prime number theorem using complex function theory, and discovered Hadamard matrices through his work on determinant inequalities.

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