Quote of the day
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
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)







