Jacques Hadamard Quotes & Sayings

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

Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ? — Jacques Hadamard

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain. — Jacques Hadamard

Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition. — Jacques Hadamard

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

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