Quote of the day
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
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)