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 …

French mathematician who was a disciple of Euler and Lagrange. He published a classic work on geometry, Élements de géométrie. He also made significant contributions in differential …

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.

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 …

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

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, …

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 …

French mathematician, focusing in the fields of statistics, abstract algebra, number theory and analysis. His work formed the basis for work by many others, including Gauss and Abel. Gave …

Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752–1833) made great contributions to analysis, number theory, celes-tial mechanics, and practical science.