French mathematician and academic (d. 1963), Birth: 8-12-1865, Death: 17-10-1963
1.
The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.
Jacques Hadamard
2.
Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?
Jacques Hadamard
3.
Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.
Jacques Hadamard
4.
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
5.
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.
