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Adrien-Marie Legendre

1752 - 1833

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Adrien-Marie Legendre (; French: [adʁiɛ̃ maʁi ləʒɑ̃dʁ]; 18 September 1752 – 9 January 1833) was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics. Well-known and important concepts such as the Legendre polynomials and Legendre transformation are named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adrien-Marie Legendre has received more than 1,119,319 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Adrien-Marie Legendre is the 91st most popular mathematician (down from 87th in 2019), the 617th most popular biography from France (down from 600th in 2019) and the 18th most popular French Mathematician.

Adrien-Marie Legendre is most famous for his work in number theory, specifically his work on the law of quadratic reciprocity.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Adrien-Marie Legendre ranks 91 out of 1,004. Before him are Ctesibius, Alexander Friedmann, Stanislaw Ulam, Katherine Johnson, Paul Erdős, and Lars Ahlfors. After him are G. H. Hardy, Siméon Denis Poisson, Leopold Kronecker, Gabriel Cramer, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, and Thābit ibn Qurra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Adrien-Marie Legendre ranks 5. Before him are Maria Carolina of Austria, Jeongjo of Joseon, Joseph Marie Jacquard, and Muzio Clementi. After him are Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Karl Mack von Leiberich, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Jacques Roux, Thomas Chatterton, Adolph Freiherr Knigge, and Nguyễn Huệ. Among people deceased in 1833, Adrien-Marie Legendre ranks 6. Before him are Nicéphore Niépce, Ferdinand VII of Spain, Kaspar Hauser, Richard Trevithick, and Marie-Antoine Carême. After him are Seraphim of Sarov, William Wilberforce, Ram Mohan Roy, Hugh Glass, Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, and Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adrien-Marie Legendre ranks 617 out of 6,770. Before him are Léon Blum (1872), Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Félix Faure (1841), Albert Uderzo (1927), Lucien Febvre (1878), and André the Giant (1946). After him are Julie Clary (1771), Pierre de Ronsard (1524), Charles II of Navarre (1332), Marina Vlady (1938), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), and Juliette Binoche (1964).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Adrien-Marie Legendre ranks 18. Before him are Marin Mersenne (1588), Gaspard Monge (1746), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Abraham de Moivre (1667), and Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728). After him are Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Charles Hermite (1822), Girard Desargues (1591), and Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788).

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