"All those who were acquainted with Hadamard know that until the end of his very long life, he retained an extraordinary freshness of mind and character: in many respects, his reactions remained those of a fourteen-year-old boy. His kindness knew no bounds. The warmth with which Hadamard received me in 1921 eliminated all distance between us. He seemed to me more like a peer, infinitely more knowledgeable but hardly any older; he needed no effort at all to make himself accessible to me."
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André Weil, The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician (1992), p. 29
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Jacques Hadamard
Jacques Salomon Hadamard (8 December 1865 – 17 October 1963) was a French mathematician, famous for his research in complex analysis, partial differential equations, differential geometry, and analytic number theory.
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