Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752 to 1833) was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics, and well known concepts such as the Legendre polynomials and the Legendre transformation are named after him. He is also known for his contributions to the method of least squares, and he was the first to publish on it officially, although Carl Friedrich Gauss had discovered it before him. He taught at the Ecole Militaire from 1775 to 1780 and at the Ecole Normale from 1795, and from 1799 to 1815 he was permanent mathematics examiner for the Ecole Polytechnique. The Academie des sciences made him an adjoint member in 1783 and an associate in 1785, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1789, and he was made an officer of the Legion d'Honneur in 1831. In this atlas he appears for the least squares method and the numerical results that carry his name.
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was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics
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18 September 1752-9 January 1833
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was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics
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He is also known for his contributions to the method of least squares, and was the first to officially publish on it
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was the first to officially publish on it
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In 1789, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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He is also known for his contributions to the method of least squares, and was the first to officially publish on it
Affiliated With: French Academy of Sciences, Life
The Académie des sciences made Legendre an adjoint member in 1783 and an associate in 1785.
Affiliated With: Royal Society, Life
In 1789, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Affiliated With: École Polytechnique, Life
from 1799 to 1815 he served as permanent mathematics examiner for the École Polytechnique
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