By Alex GordonHAIFA, Israel — Jacques Solomon Hadamard, a prominent French mathematician, was born on December 8, 1865, in Versailles to a Jewish family. Jacques Hadamard received his secondary education at the Lycée Louis the Great. In 1892, Jacques Hadamard became a doctor of science. Jacques Hadamard also listened to papers when he was over 90 years old. He wrote: “Jacques Hadamard, a cousin of Dreyfus’s wife, once spoke to me about the 1894 military tribunal.