Adrien-Marie Legendre
1752-1833
French Mathematician
Though he was overshadowed by his older contemporaries Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736-1813) and Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749-1827), Adrien-Marie Lege...
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Adrien-Marie Legendre
1752-1833
French mathematician who proved that there are an infinity of prime numbers in any arithmetic progression whose first term and increment are relatively prime and who ob...
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Adrien-Marie Legendre is best known as the author of Éléments de géométrie, a simplification of Euclid's Elements. Published in 1794, it went through numerous editions and...
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Born into a well-to-do family, Adrien-Marie Legendre decided early in life to dedicate himself to the study of mathematics. He enrolled at the College Mazarin in Paris, France, concentrating on scienc...
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Adrien-Marie Legendre
Adrien-Marie Legendre
Adrien-Marie Legendre