Adrien Marie Legendre wikipedia - Search
Open links in new tab
  1. Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Adrien-Marie_Legendre

    Adrien-Marie Legendre - Wikipedia

    Life

    Adrien-Marie Legendre was born in Paris on 18 September 1752 to a wealthy family. He received his education at … See more

    Mathematical work

    Abel's work on elliptic functions was built on Legendre's, and some of Gauss's work in statistics and number theory completed that of Legendre. He developed, and first communicated to his contemporaries before Gau… See more

    See more images of Adrien-Marie Legendre
    See more images of Adrien-Marie Legendre
    All images
    Born18 September 1752 · Paris, France
    Died9 January 1833 (aged 80) · Paris, France
    Alma materCollège Mazarin
    Known forAssociated Legendre polynomials · Legendre transformation · Legendre polynomials · Elliptic functions · Introducing the character ∂
    Explore more
    Honors

    • Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1832)
    • The Moon crater Legendre is named after him.
    • Main-belt asteroid 26950 Legendre is named after him.… See more

    Publications

    Essays
    • 1782 Recherches sur la trajectoire des projectiles dans les milieux résistants (prize on projectiles offered by the Berlin Academy)
    Books… See more

    Mistaken portrait

    For two centuries, until the recent discovery of the error in 2005, books, paintings and articles have incorrectly shown a profile portrait of the obscure French politician Louis Legendre (1752–1797) as a portrait of the mathe… See more

    Notes

    1. ^ Aldrich, John. "Earliest Uses of Symbols of Calculus". Retrieved 20 April 2017.
    2. ^ Duren, Peter (December 2009). "Changing Faces: The Mistaken Portrait of Legendre" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 56 (11): 1440–1443… See more

    Wikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license
    Feedback
    Kizdar net | Kizdar net | Кыздар Нет
  2. Some results have been removed