Adrien-Marie Legendre was a French mathematician who lived from 1752 to 1833 and made wide ranging contributions across mathematics. He developed the Legendre polynomials and the Legendre transformation, both still named after him, and was the first mathematician to publish the method of least squares, although Carl Friedrich Gauss had discovered it earlier without publishing. His work also spanned elliptic functions, number theory and geometry, including his widely used textbook Elements de geometrie.
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Adrien-Marie Legendre was born in Paris on 18 September 1752 to a wealthy family.
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Legendre died in Paris on 9 January 1833, after a long and painful illness, and Legendre's widow carefully preserved his belongings to memorialize him.
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Well-known and important concepts such as the Legendre polynomials and Legendre transformation are named after him.
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