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Jacques Hadamard, A Universal Mathematician

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Vladimir Maz’ya, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden and Tatyana Shaposhnikova, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Publication: History of Mathematics
Publication Year: 1998; Volume 14
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-1923-4 (print); 978-1-4704-3882-1 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/hmath/014
MathSciNet review: MR1611073
MSC: Primary 01A70; Secondary 01A60

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Table of Contents

Front/Back Matter

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Part I. Hadamard’s Life

• Prologue
• The beginning
• The turn of the century
• Mature years
• After the great war
• Maî tre
• In the 30s
• The second world war
• After eighty

Part II. Hadamard’s Mathematics

• Analytic function theory
• Number theory
• Analytical mechanics and geometry
• Calculus of variations and functionals
• Miscellaneous topics
• Elasticity and hydrodynamics
• Partial differential equations
• Hadamard’s last works
• Epilogue

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