Adrien-Marie Legendre
1752 – 1833 · aged 81
French mathematician (1752–1833)
- Born
- 18 Sept 1752 · Paris
- Died
- 9 Jan 1833 · Paris
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- 18 Sept 1752BornBorn in Paris
- 1787AwardFellow of the Royal Society
- 1805 – 1806RolePresident of the French Academy of Sciences
- 1820AwardFellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1831AwardOfficer of the Legion of Honour
- 1832AwardFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 9 Jan 1833DiedDied in Paris
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- 1756 – 1763Seven Years' War
- c. 1760 – 1840Industrial Revolution
- 1765 – 1783American Revolution
- 1789 – 1799French Revolution
- 1812 – 1815War of 1812
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
Biography
Adrien-Marie Legendre (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. 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 Gauss had discovered it before him.
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