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Adrien-Marie Legendre

1752 - 1833

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Adrien-Marie Legendre (; French: [adʁiɛ̃ maʁi ləʒɑ̃dʁ]; 18 September 1752 – 9 January 1833) was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics. Well-known and important concepts such as the Legendre polynomials and Legendre transformation are named after him. He is also known for his contributions to the method of least squares, and was the first to officially publish on it, though Carl Friedrich Gauss had discovered it before him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adrien-Marie Legendre is the 104th most popular mathematician (down from 91st in 2019), the 658th most popular biography from France (down from 617th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Mathematician.

Adrien-Marie Legendre is most famous for his work in number theory, specifically his work on the law of quadratic reciprocity.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Adrien-Marie Legendre ranks 104 out of 1,004. Before him are Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Paul Erdős, John Wallis, Claude Shannon, Felix Klein, and Guillaume de l'Hôpital. After him are Augustus De Morgan, Anthemius of Tralles, Émile Picard, Willebrord Snellius, Paul Cohen, and Alexis Clairaut.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Adrien-Marie Legendre ranks 5. Before him are Maria Carolina of Austria, Jeongjo of Joseon, Joseph Marie Jacquard, and Muzio Clementi. After him are Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Karl Mack von Leiberich, Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Thomas Chatterton, and Jacques Roux. Among people deceased in 1833, Adrien-Marie Legendre ranks 7. Before him are Nicéphore Niépce, Kaspar Hauser, Ferdinand VII of Spain, Ram Mohan Roy, Marie-Antoine Carême, and Richard Trevithick. After him are Seraphim of Sarov, Pierre André Latreille, Oliver Wolcott Jr., William Wilberforce, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, and Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adrien-Marie Legendre ranks 658 out of 6,770. Before him are Roger Garaudy (1913), Rashi (1040), Pierre Richard (1934), Darius Milhaud (1892), Alexandre Millerand (1859), and Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661). After him are Syagrius (430), Rudolph of France (890), Fulk, King of Jerusalem (1092), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Johnny Hallyday (1943), and Paul Dukas (1865).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Adrien-Marie Legendre ranks 21. Before him are Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Girard Desargues (1591), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Gaspard Monge (1746), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), and Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661). After him are Émile Picard (1856), Alexis Clairaut (1713), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Jacques Hadamard (1865), and Maurice René Fréchet (1878).

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