Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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)