mathematics, the Legendre forms of elliptic integrals are a canonical set of three elliptic integrals to which all others may be reduced. Legendre chose the...
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They are a modern alternative to the Legendre forms. The Legendre forms may be expressed in terms of the Carlson forms and vice versa. The Carlson elliptic...
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In mathematics, Legendre polynomials, named after Adrien-Marie Legendre (1782), are a system of complete and orthogonal polynomials with a wide number...
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Elliptic integral (section Legendre's relation)
integral can be brought into a form that involves integrals over rational functions and the three Legendre canonical forms, also known as the elliptic integrals...
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In numerical analysis, Gauss–Legendre quadrature is a form of Gaussian quadrature for approximating the definite integral of a function. For integrating...
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filter Legendre form Legendre function Legendre moment Legendre polynomials Legendre pseudospectral method Legendre rational functions Legendre relation...
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In mathematics, the Legendre transformation (or Legendre transform), first introduced by Adrien-Marie Legendre in 1787 when studying the minimal surface...
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In mathematics, Legendre's formula gives an expression for the exponent of the largest power of a prime p that divides the factorial n!. It is named after...
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In number theory, the Legendre symbol is a function of a {\displaystyle a} and p {\displaystyle p} defined as ( a p ) = { 1 if a is a quadratic residue...
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In mathematics, the associated Legendre polynomials are the canonical solutions of the general Legendre equation ( 1 − x 2 ) d 2 d x 2 P ℓ m ( x ) − 2...
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many applications. Alternate notations include: Carlson symmetric form Legendre form Nome Quarter period Elliptic functions: The inverses of elliptic integrals;...
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In mathematics, Legendre's three-square theorem states that a natural number can be represented as the sum of three squares of integers n = x 2 + y 2 +...
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Quadratic reciprocity (section Legendre's version)
calculation of any Legendre symbol, making it possible to determine whether there is an integer solution for any quadratic equation of the form x 2 ≡ a mod p...
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hyperbolic geometry. One proof of the Saccheri–Legendre theorem uses the Archimedean axiom, in the form that repeatedly halving one of two given angles...
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Legendre's conjecture, proposed by Adrien-Marie Legendre, states that there is a prime number between n 2 {\displaystyle n^{2}} and ( n + 1 ) 2 {\displaystyle...
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and foreshadowed the eventual development of infrastructure. In 1798, Legendre published Essai sur la théorie des nombres, which summarized the work of...
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Gaussian quadrature (redirect from Gauss legendre quadrature)
polynomials of degree 2n − 1 or less. This exact rule is known as the Gauss–Legendre quadrature rule. The quadrature rule will only be an accurate approximation...
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of the prime field of K, a finite field of order p2. Suppose E is in Legendre form, defined by the equation y 2 = x ( x − 1 ) ( x − λ ) {\displaystyle...
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as ln(x) or loge(x). Legendre's constant is a mathematical constant occurring in a formula constructed by Adrien-Marie Legendre to approximate the behavior...
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Modular lambda function (category Modular forms)
^{2}(1-\lambda )^{2}}}\ .} which is the j-invariant of the elliptic curve of Legendre form y 2 = x ( x − 1 ) ( x − λ ) {\displaystyle y^{2}=x(x-1)(x-\lambda )}...
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nonlinear forms, depending on the relationship between the model parameters and the observed data. The method was first proposed by Adrien-Marie Legendre in...
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Lemniscate elliptic functions (category Modular forms)
lemniscate arcsine and the lemniscate arccosine can also be expressed by the Legendre-Form: These functions can be displayed directly by using the incomplete elliptic...
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Spherical harmonics (section Real form)
Newtonian potential for a point mass. Just prior to that time, Adrien-Marie Legendre had investigated the expansion of the Newtonian potential in powers of...
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In mathematics, Legendre moments are a type of image moment and are achieved by using the Legendre polynomial. Legendre moments are used in areas of image...
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Multiplication theorem (redirect from Legendre duplication formula)
}}\;\Gamma (2z).} It is also called the Legendre duplication formula or Legendre relation, in honor of Adrien-Marie Legendre. The multiplication theorem is Γ...
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In mathematics, Legendre's relation can be expressed in either of two forms: as a relation between complete elliptic integrals, or as a relation between...
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Contact geometry (redirect from Contact form)
Sophus Lie, with the dual aims of studying differential equations (e.g. the Legendre transformation or canonical transformation) and describing the 'change...
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Sturm–Liouville theory (redirect from Self adjoint form)
(\nu +1)y=0} which can be put into Sturm–Liouville form, since d/dx(1 − x2) = −2x, so the Legendre equation is equivalent to ( ( 1 − x 2 ) y ′ ) ′ +...
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Leonhard Euler (1738), Kausler (1802), Peter Barlow (1811), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1830), Schopis (1825), Olry Terquem (1846), Joseph Bertrand (1851), Victor...
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(died 1794) 1733 – Hubert Robert, French painter (died 1808) 1752 – Louis Legendre, French butcher and politician (died 1797) 1762 – Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl...
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