Wikipedia's biographical article on Adrien-Marie Legendre, the French mathematician known for the Legendre polynomials, the Legendre transformation and early work on the method of least squares. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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