Tatiana Shaposhnikova - The life and work of Jacques Hadamard
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Speaker: Tatiana Shaposhnikova (University of Linköping)
Title: The life and work of Jacques Hadamard
Abstract: Jacques Hadamard lived a long life: he was born in 1865 and died in 1963. As a boy, he hated mathematics, had a passion for botany and played the violin. As an adult, he became a great mathematician without losing his childhood interests. He founded a famous seminar, traveled worldwide, fought for justice and human rights and at the same time made contributions which became landmarks in various domains of mathematics. He worked on function theory, number theory, partial differential equations, geometry, analytical mechanics, elasticity, hydrodynamics, calculus of variations, algebra, psychology, etc. I'll tell the story of his life, rich with joys and sorrows and survey his principal mathematical achievements.