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Adrien-Marie Legendre 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.
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science · French mathematician (1752–1833) · mathematician · surveying engineer · university teacher · writer · engineer · also Adrien-Marie Legendre, A.M. Legendre, Adrien Marie Legendre, Adrien Marie Le Jendre, Legendre
Born 18 September 1752 · Died 9 January 1833 · Q191021
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Is found in the 1820 book Album de 73 portraits-charge aquarellés des membres de I'Institut, a book of caricatures of seventy-three members of the Institut de France in Paris by the French artist Julien-Léopold Boilly as
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Books, paintings and articles had incorrectly shown a profile portrait of the obscure French politician Louis Legendre (1752–1797) as a portrait of the mathematician
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Was buried next to her husband in the village of Auteuil, where the couple had lived, and left their last country house to the village
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Died 1833-01-09.
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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1832).
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1831).
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Was made an officer of the Légion d'Honneur
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Gave a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for exponent n = 5, which was also proven by Lejeune Dirichlet in 1828
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Legendre's pension from the École Militaire was stopped because he refused to vote for the government candidate at the Institut National
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820).
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As an appendix to his book on the paths of comets
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Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1805–1806).
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Napoleon reorganized the Institut National, and Legendre became a member of the Geometry section
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1787).
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Studied at Collège des Quatre-Nations (1770).
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Born 1752-09-18.
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