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    • Adrien-Marie Legendre was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics. Well-known and important concepts such as the Legendre polynomials and Legendre transformation are named after him. He is also known for his contributions to the method of least squares, and was the first to officially publish on it, though Carl Friedrich Ga… See more

    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

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    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 ∂
    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)
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    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

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    In mathematics, Legendre polynomials, named after Adrien-Marie Legendre (1782), are a system of complete and orthogonal polynomials with a wide number of mathematical properties and numerous applications.

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    Jul 20, 1998 · Adrien-Marie Legendre (born September 18, 1752, Paris, France—died January 10, 1833, Paris) was a French mathematician whose distinguished work on elliptic integrals provided basic analytic tools for …

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    Adrien-Marie Legendre's major work on elliptic integrals provided basic analytical tools for mathematical physics. He gave a simple proof that π is irrational as well as the first proof that π2 is irrational.

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    Who was Adrien-Marie Legendre?
    Adrien-Marie Legendre (/ ləˈʒɑːndər, - ˈʒɑːnd /; French: [adʁiɛ̃ maʁi ləʒɑ̃dʁ]; 18 September 1752 – 9 January 1833) was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics. Well-known and important concepts such as the Legendre polynomials and Legendre transformation are named after him.

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    Did Louis Legendre represent Adrien-Marie Legendre?
    Side view sketching of French politician Louis Legendre (1752–1797), whose portrait had been mistakenly used, for nearly 200 years, to represent French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre, i.e. up until 2005 when the mistake was discovered.

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    How old was Adrien-Marie Legendre when he married?
    (1752 – 1833) The life of Adrien-Marie Legendre was quiet and conventional, and devoted almost exclusively to mathematics. He delayed marriage until he was over forty years of age, and even then, his nineteen-year-old bride’s chief attribute appears to have been her ability to create a tranquil atmosphere in which he could study.

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    What happened to Adrien-Marie Legendre?
    Legendre is an extremely amiable man, but unfortunately as old as the stones. As a result of Legendre's refusal to vote for the government's candidate in 1824 his pension was stopped and he died in poverty. E de Beaumont, Eloge historique d'Adrien-Marie Legendre, Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences 32 (1864), XXXVII-LXXXVII.

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    Why is the moon crater Legendre named after Adrien-Marie Legendre?
    The Moon crater Legendre is named after him. Adrien-Marie Legendre was born in Paris (or possibly, in Toulouse, depending on sources) on 18 September 1752 to a wealthy family. He was given a top quality education at the Collège Mazarin in Paris, defending his thesis in physics and mathematics in 1770.

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    Who painted Joseph Fourier & Adrien-Marie Legendre in 1820?
    1820 watercolor caricatures of the French mathematicians Adrien-Marie Legendre (left) and Joseph Fourier (right) by French artist Julien-Léopold Boilly, watercolor portrait numbers 29 and 30 of Album de 73 portraits-charge aquarellés des membres de I'Institut.

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