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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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  • 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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    mathematics. Well-known and important concepts such as the Legendre polynomials and Legendre transformation are named after him. He is also known for his...
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  • with Gauss–Legendre quadrature, the associated orthogonal polynomials are Legendre polynomials, denoted by Pn(x). With the n-th polynomial normalized...
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    Qn, are all solutions of Legendre's differential equation. The Legendre polynomials and the associated Legendre polynomials are also solutions of the...
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  • (1 − x2)α–1/2. They generalize Legendre polynomials and Chebyshev polynomials, and are special cases of Jacobi polynomials. They are named after Leopold...
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    left-hand side is played by the Legendre polynomials. The addition theorem states where Pℓ is the Legendre polynomial of degree ℓ. This expression is...
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  • In mathematics, an orthogonal polynomial sequence is a family of polynomials such that any two different polynomials in the sequence are orthogonal to...
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  • mathematician Associated Legendre polynomials Legendre's equation Legendre polynomials Legendre symbol Legendre transformation Legendre (crater), a lunar impact...
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    well-approximated by polynomials on [ − 1 , 1 ] {\displaystyle [-1,1]} , the associated orthogonal polynomials are Legendre polynomials, denoted by Pn(x)...
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  • (including as a special case the Gegenbauer polynomials, Chebyshev polynomials, and Legendre polynomials). They have many important applications in such...
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    in either the passband or stopband. The filter design is based on Legendre polynomials which is the reason for its alternate name and the "L" in Optimum...
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    Gegenbauer polynomials, and thus also the Legendre, Zernike and Chebyshev polynomials, are special cases of the Jacobi polynomials. The Jacobi polynomials were...
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  • Rodrigues' formula (category Orthogonal polynomials)
    formula (formerly called the Ivory–Jacobi formula) generates the Legendre polynomials. It was independently introduced by Olinde Rodrigues (1816), Sir...
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  • In mathematics, the big q-Legendre polynomials are an orthogonal family of polynomials defined in terms of Heine's basic hypergeometric series as P n (...
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  • the Legendre polynomials. Another collection of orthogonal polynomials are the associated Legendre polynomials. The study of orthogonal polynomials involves...
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  • mathematics, Legendre transform is an integral transform named after the mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre, which uses Legendre polynomials P n ( x ) {\displaystyle...
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    The Chebyshev polynomials are two sequences of orthogonal polynomials related to the cosine and sine functions, notated as T n ( x ) {\displaystyle T_{n}(x)}...
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  • Legendre polynomials Associated Legendre polynomials Spherical harmonic Lucas polynomials Macdonald polynomials Meixner polynomials Necklace polynomial Newton...
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  • to define the multidimensional polynomials. Like the other classical orthogonal polynomials, the Hermite polynomials can be defined from several different...
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  • coefficients Pn are the Legendre polynomials of degree n. Therefore, the Taylor coefficients of the integrand are given by the Legendre polynomials in X = cos θ...
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    proceed to calculate the elliptic integral. Given Eq. 3 and the Legendre polynomial solution for the elliptic integral: K ( k ) = π 2 ∑ n = 0 ∞ ( ( 2...
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  • equal to zero are proportional to spherical harmonics and associated Legendre polynomials, normalized to unity and with Condon and Shortley phase convention:...
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    are obtained by composing the Cayley transform with Legendre polynomials. A rational Legendre function of degree n is defined as: R n ( x ) = 2 x + 1 P n...
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  • generalized harmonic mean estimator, and importance sampling. The Legendre polynomials are characterized by orthogonality with respect to the uniform measure...
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  • supported wavelets derived from Legendre polynomials are termed Legendre wavelets or spherical harmonic wavelets. Legendre functions have widespread applications...
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  • Laguerre polynomials Chebyshev polynomials Legendre polynomials Jacobi polynomials Others come from statistics: Hermite polynomials Many are studied in algebra...
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  • of latitude and may be expressed as an infinite sum of associated Legendre polynomials; the functions are orthogonal over the sphere in the continuous case...
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  • {R}}_{i}{\hat {R}}_{j}\ ,} which makes more explicit the connection to Legendre polynomials which result from the multipole expansion, namely here P 2 ( x )...
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  • In mathematics, the continuous q-Legendre polynomials are a family of basic hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials in the basic Askey scheme.Koekoek, Lesky...
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