Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Jacques Hadamard
Born: December 8, 1865
Died: October 17, 1963 (aged 97)
Bio: Jacques Salomon Hadamard ForMemRS was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.
Known for:
- Lessons in geometry
- Four lectures on mathematics (1915)