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    Adrien-Marie Legendre (/ləˈʒɑːndər, -ˈʒɑːnd/; French: [adʁiɛ̃ maʁi ləʒɑ̃dʁ]; 18 September 1752 – 9 January 1833) was a French mathematician who made numerous...
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    François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) was a French politician and statesman who served as President of France from...
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    Adrien Thibault Marie Rabiot (born 3 April 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Ligue 1 club Marseille and...
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  • for a partial differential, and adopted for the partial derivative by Adrien-Marie Legendre in 1786. It represents a specialized cursive type of the letter...
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    The least-squares method was officially discovered and published by Adrien-Marie Legendre (1805), though it is usually also co-credited to Carl Friedrich...
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    constant and the method of least squares, which he had discovered before Adrien-Marie Legendre published it. Gauss was in charge of the extensive geodetic...
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  • Royal 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...
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    \Re (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...
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  • partial differences. The modern partial derivative notation was created by Adrien-Marie Legendre (1786), although he later abandoned it; Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi...
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  • power of a prime p that divides the factorial n!. It is named after Adrien-Marie Legendre. It is also sometimes known as de Polignac's formula, after...
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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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    maximum product of the probabilities of a system of concurrent errors. Adrien-Marie Legendre (1805) developed the method of least squares, and introduced...
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    side-view portrait of Louis Legendre as that of the French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752–1833). The error arose from the fact that the sketch was...
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    keep them busy for five hundred years." Another French mathematician, Adrien-Marie Legendre, said: "What a head the young Norwegian has!" The Abel Prize...
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    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 function...
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  • Marie Adrien Persac (December 14, 1823 – July 21, 1873) was a French-born American fine art painter, cartographer, photographer, and art teacher. Persac...
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  • {\textstyle \int dx/(a+b\cos x)} in his 1768 integral calculus textbook, and Adrien-Marie Legendre described the general method in 1817. The substitution is described...
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  • transformation, Fenchel transformation, or Fenchel conjugate (after Adrien-Marie Legendre and Werner Fenchel). The convex conjugate is widely used for...
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    as satisfactory, and in fact for its time it is unusually rigorous. Adrien-Marie Legendre (1794), after introducing the Bessel–Clifford function, provided...
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  • Lova Adrien Marie Rakotoniaina is a Malagasy politician. A member of the National Assembly of Madagascar, he was elected as a member of the Tiako I Madagasikara...
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  • based on the individual work of Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) and Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752–1833) combined with modern algorithms for multiplication...
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    constant is a mathematical constant occurring in a formula constructed by Adrien-Marie Legendre to approximate the behavior of the prime-counting function π...
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    de l'empereur de Chine François-Adrien Boieldieu 1825 Jean-Baptiste Stouf His caricatural depiction of Adrien-Marie Legendre Henry Harrisse, L.-L. Boilly...
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  • Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and Adrien-Marie Legendre prove Fermat's Last Theorem for n = 5. 1825 – André-Marie Ampère discovers Stokes' theorem. 1826 –...
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    (1676), Leonhard Euler (1738), Kausler (1802), Peter Barlow (1811), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1830), Schopis (1825), Olry Terquem (1846), Joseph Bertrand...
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  • 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...
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    cannot be written as a sum of at most four hexagonal numbers is 130. Adrien-Marie Legendre proved in 1830 that any integer greater than 1791 can be expressed...
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    Legendre transformation (or Legendre transform), first introduced by Adrien-Marie Legendre in 1787 when studying the minimal surface problem, is an involutive...
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    a commission including Johan Georg Tralles, Jean Henri van Swinden, Adrien-Marie Legendre and Jean-Baptiste Delambre calculated the distance from Dunkirk...
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  • Edmund Landau and Srinivasa Ramanujan Legendre's constant (one, 1) – Adrien-Marie Legendre Loschmidt constant – Johann Josef Loschmidt Ludolphsche Zahl...
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