Adrien-Marie Legendre (/ləˈʒɑːndər, -ˈʒɑːnd/; French: [adʁiɛ̃ maʁi ləʒɑ̃dʁ]; 18 September 1752 – 9 January 1833) was a French mathematician who made numerous...

In mathematics, Legendre polynomials, named after Adrien-Marie Legendre (1782), are a system of complete and orthogonal polynomials with a wide number...

(non-residue) is −1. Its value at zero is 0. The Legendre symbol was introduced by Adrien-Marie Legendre in 1798 in the course of his attempts at proving...

In mathematics, Legendre transform is an integral transform named after the mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre, which uses Legendre polynomials P n (...

transformation, Fenchel transformation, or Fenchel conjugate (after Adrien-Marie Legendre and Werner Fenchel). The convex conjugate is widely used for constructing...

In mathematics, the Legendre transformation (or Legendre transform), first introduced by Adrien-Marie Legendre in 1787 when studying the minimal surface...

In mathematics, the Legendre sieve, named after Adrien-Marie Legendre, is the simplest method in modern sieve theory. It applies the concept of the Sieve...

on the individual work of Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) and Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752–1833) combined with modern algorithms for multiplication and...

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 Adrien-Marie...

(z_{2})>0} . The beta function was studied by Leonhard Euler and Adrien-Marie Legendre and was given its name by Jacques Binet; its symbol Β is a Greek...

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...

partial differential, and adopted for the partial derivative by Adrien-Marie Legendre in 1786. It represents a specialized cursive type of the letter...

Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752–1833) is the eponym of all of the things listed below. 26950 Legendre Associated Legendre polynomials Fourier–Legendre series...

them busy for five hundred years." Another French mathematician, Adrien-Marie Legendre, said: "What a head the young Norwegian has!" The Abel Prize in...

Legendre's equation is the Diophantine equation a x 2 + b y 2 + c z 2 = 0. {\displaystyle ax^{2}+by^{2}+cz^{2}=0.} The equation is named for Adrien-Marie...

Legendre, LeGendre or Le Gendre is a French surname. It may refer to: Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752–1833), French mathematician Associated Legendre polynomials...

least-squares method was officially discovered and published by Adrien-Marie Legendre (1805), though it is usually also co-credited to Carl Friedrich...

incorrectly printed a side-view portrait of Louis Legendre as that of the French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752–1833). The error arose from the fact...

l'empereur de Chine François-Adrien Boieldieu 1825 Jean-Baptiste Stouf His caricatural depiction of Adrien-Marie Legendre Henry Harrisse, L.-L. Boilly...

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...

appeared in the early 19th century in the works of Adrien-Marie Legendre, who introduced the Legendre polynomials. In the late 19th century, the study of...

Euclid. The theorem is named after Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri and Adrien-Marie Legendre. It appeared in Saccheri's 1733 book Euclides ab omni naevo vindicatus...

differences. The modern partial derivative notation was created by Adrien-Marie Legendre (1786), although he later abandoned it; Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi...

depending on the application. 1 is the value of Legendre's constant, introduced in 1808 by Adrien-Marie Legendre to express the asymptotic behavior of the prime-counting...

Society of London 65 (1775), Nr. XXVI, S. 283–289, JSTOR 106197. Adrien-Marie Legendre: Mémoire sur les intégrations par arcs d’ellipse. In: Histoire de...

and the method of least squares, which he had discovered before Adrien-Marie Legendre published it. Gauss was in charge of the extensive geodetic survey...

(1676), Leonhard Euler (1738), Kausler (1802), Peter Barlow (1811), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1830), Schopis (1825), Olry Terquem (1846), Joseph Bertrand (1851)...

Germain first became interested in number theory in 1798 when Adrien-Marie Legendre published Essai sur la théorie des nombres. After studying the work...

satisfactory, and in fact for its time it is unusually rigorous. Adrien-Marie Legendre (1794), after introducing the Bessel–Clifford function, provided...

product of the probabilities of a system of concurrent errors. Adrien-Marie Legendre (1805) developed the method of least squares, and introduced it...