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A mathematician whose work includes number theory and elliptic integrals.

Biography: mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Legendre/

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Portrait of Adrien-Marie Legendre
. Julien-Léopold Boilly (1796–1874), watercolor caricatures, 1820; Album de 73 Portraits-Charge, portrait 29, Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France. Commons claims public domain in the country of origin and jurisdictions with life-plus-70 terms or shorter. Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.

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Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1833) was a French mathematician known for his significant contributions to number theory, statistics, and analysis. He is perhaps best known for his work in the field of mathematics related to the theory of prime numbers and for the development of the Legendre polynomials, which are important in various areas of mathematical physics and engineering.

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