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 vast 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...

transformation, Fenchel transformation, or Fenchel conjugate (after Adrien-Marie Legendre and Werner Fenchel). It allows in particular for a far reaching...

In mathematics, Legendre transform is an integral transform named after the mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre, which uses Legendre polynomials Pn(x){\displaystyle...

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

(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...

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...

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

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...

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

Euclid. The theorem is named after Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri and Adrien-Marie Legendre. The existence of at least one triangle with angle sum of 180 degrees...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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 conjecture, proposed by Adrien-Marie Legendre, states that there is a prime number between n2{\displaystyle n^{2}} and (n+1)2{\displaystyle...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

\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...

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

In number theory, 1 is the value of Legendre's constant, which was introduced in 1808 by Adrien-Marie Legendre in expressing the asymptotic behavior...