Adrien-Marie Legendre

E182500

French mathematician human mathematician

Adrien-Marie Legendre was an influential 18th–19th century French mathematician known for major contributions to number theory, analysis, and mathematical statistics.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French mathematician ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	France ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1752-09-18 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1833-01-10 ⓘ
educatedAt	Collège Mazarin ⓘ
employer	Bureau des Longitudes ⓘ École Militaire ⓘ École Normale (Paris) ⓘ surface form: École Normale
familyName	Legendre ⓘ
fieldOfWork	mathematical analysis ⓘ mathematical statistics ⓘ mathematics ⓘ number theory ⓘ
givenName	Adrien-Marie Legendre self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Adrien-Marie
hasAcademicDiscipline	geometry ⓘ probability theory ⓘ
knownFor	Legendre polynomials ⓘ Legendre symbol ⓘ Legendre transformation ⓘ Legendre’s conjecture on primes between consecutive squares ⓘ Fuchsian differential equation ⓘ surface form: Legendre’s differential equation Legendre’s formula for valuations of factorials ⓘ Legendre’s relation for elliptic integrals ⓘ law of quadratic reciprocity (independent formulation) ⓘ method of least squares ⓘ work on elliptic integrals ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	French ⓘ
memberOf	Bureau des Longitudes ⓘ Académie des Sciences ⓘ surface form: French Academy of Sciences
nativeLanguage	French ⓘ
notableAchievement	classification and tabulation of elliptic integrals ⓘ contributions to geodesy and determination of the Earth’s shape ⓘ early systematic treatment of number theory ⓘ independent discovery and publication of the method of least squares ⓘ introduction of the Legendre symbol in quadratic reciprocity ⓘ
notableWork	Essai sur la théorie des nombres ⓘ Nouvelles méthodes pour la détermination des orbites des comètes ⓘ Traité des fonctions elliptiques et des intégrales eulériennes ⓘ Éléments de géométrie ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Paris ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Paris ⓘ
residence	Paris ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
workPeriod	18th century ⓘ 19th century ⓘ

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method of least squares → historicalDeveloper → Adrien-Marie Legendre ⓘ

Gamma function → alsoDevelopedBy → Adrien-Marie Legendre ⓘ

Legendre symbol → namedAfter → Adrien-Marie Legendre ⓘ

Adrien-Marie Legendre → givenName → Adrien-Marie Legendre self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Adrien-Marie

Number Theory: An Approach through History from Hammurapi to Legendre → mentionsHistoricalFigure → Adrien-Marie Legendre ⓘ

prime number theorem → historicalConjectureBy → Adrien-Marie Legendre ⓘ