Jacques Hadamard Quotes

• The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

  Jacques Hadamard

  Real, Math, Two

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• Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.

  Jacques Hadamard

  Intuition, Logic, Sanctions

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• The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.

  Jacques Hadamard

  Intuition, Statistics, Rigor

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• Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.

  Jacques Hadamard

  Math, Civilization, Progress

  Jacques Hadamard (1954). “An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?

  Jacques Hadamard

  Defining, Entity, Existence

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• To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.

  Jacques Hadamard

  Children, Parent, Despair

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