Adrien-Marie Legendre was born in Paris on 18 September 1752 to a wealthy family. He received his education at the Collège Mazarin in Paris, and defended his thesis in physics and …

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 …

Legendre reduced elliptic integrals to three standard forms, but their straightforward inversion by Abel and Jacobi rendered his work unnecessary. He invented the Legendre polynomials in …

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 …

Mar 17, 2025 · Adrien-Marie Legendre was a French mathematician known for his significant contributions to number theory, statistics, and mathematical analysis. Born in 1752, …

Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1833) was a French mathematician who made significant contributions to a wide range of mathematical fields, including number theory, geometry, …

Born in Paris on September 18, 1752, Legendre was the son of wealthy parents. He studied at the Collège Mazarin in Paris, and in 1770, when he was 18 years old, defended his theses in …

Adrien-Marie Legendre, a surveyor, was born in Paris, on September 18, 1752. He died at Auteuil on January 9, 1834. He is one of the most illustrious representatives of the mathematical …

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 …

In 1805, Legendre published the first description of the method of least squares as an algebraic fitting procedure. It was subsequently justified on statistical grounds by Gauss and Laplace.