Adrien-Marie Legendre

Adrien-Marie Legendre
Adrien-Marie Legendre
	Watercolor caricature by Julien-Léopold Boilly (see § Mistaken portrait), the only known portrait of Legendre[1]
Born	18 September 1752; Paris, France
Died	9 January 1833 (aged 80); Paris, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	Collège Mazarin
Known for	Associated Legendre polynomials; Legendre transformation; Legendre polynomials; Elliptic functions; Introducing the character ∂[2]
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	École Militaire; École Normale; École Polytechnique

Adrien-Marie Legendre (/ləˈʒɑːndər, -ˈʒɑːnd/;[3] 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.[4][5]

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Adrien-Marie Legendre
Watercolor caricature by Julien-Léopold Boilly (see § Mistaken portrait), the only known portrait of Legendre[1]
Born	(1752-09-18)18 September 1752 Paris, France
Died	9 January 1833(1833-01-09) (aged 80) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	Collège Mazarin
Known for	Associated Legendre polynomials Legendre transformation Legendre polynomials Elliptic functions Introducing the character ∂[2]
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	École Militaire École Normale École Polytechnique