Jacques Hadamard Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.”
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“The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.”
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“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.”
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“Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.”
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“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
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