Adrien-Marie Legendre

@Mathematicians, Facts and Personal Life ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Adrien-Marie Legendre was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics French Scientists Mathematicians Virgo Celebrities Adrien-Marie Legendre, a renowned French mathematician holds a distinguished place in the field of mathematics. Having spent his early years in extensive research work, he has various theories to his credit. Legendre’s contribution to the elliptical, physics and mathematical analysis had been a guiding light for various other researchers in the similar field. He served as a professor at the famous science institute in Paris, wherein he also did his research and brought out publications simultaneously. His major areas of work cover elliptic functions, number theory, gravitational attractions, geodesy, calculus and various other branches of mathematics. He has been honored by various titles, membership to commemorate his contributions in the field of mathematics and physics. He developed the least squares method, which has wide ranging application in linear regression, signal processing, statistics, and curve fitting. He gave the concept of Legendre transformation, which is used to go from the Lagrangian to the Hamiltonian formulation of classical mechanics. Legendre transformation is also used in thermodynamics to obtain the enthalpy and the Helmholtz and Gibbs (free) energies from the internal energy.

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Birthday: September 18, 1752 Died on: January 10, 1833 Nationality: French Famous: Scientists, Mathematicians Spouses: Marguerite-Claudine Couhin Known as: Adrien M. Legendre Birth Place: Paris, France Information Detail Birthday September 18, 1752 Died on January 10, 1833 Nationality French Famous Scientists, Mathematicians Spouses Marguerite-Claudine Couhin Known as Adrien M. Legendre Birth Place Paris, France Gender Male Sun Sign Virgo Born in Paris, France Famous as Mathematician Died at Age 80

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Legendre married Marguerite-Claudine Couhin in 1793. Unsplash Personal Life

During the French Revolution Legendre had to forgo his family fortune in the turmoil and the shutting down of the Academy of Sciences. Unsplash Personal Life

He faced a difficult time due to health issues and poverty after being pension deprived. After a prolonged illness, he passed away on January 10, 1833 in Paris at an age of 81. Unsplash Personal Life

Adrien-Marie Legendre was born on September 18, 1752 in a prosperous and wealthy family in Paris Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Coming from a wealthy family, he could manage to study and research for a longer time (1770s till the French Revolution). Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He was enrolled in College Mazarin (Collège des Quatre-Nations), Paris, for studying physics and mathematics wherein he won accolades for challenging his own thesis on these subjects. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He studied mathematics under Abbé Joseph-Francois Marie, a mathematician of high repute. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He was a faculty for mathematics along with Pierre-Simon Laplace at the École Militaire in Paris from 1775 to 1780. Unsplash Career

One of his most popular works entitled, “Treatise on Elliptic Functions” (1786) is based on elliptic integrals wherein he established tables showing the values of elliptic integrals and their utility in mechanics and dynamics. Unsplash Career

In 1786, Legendre spent time working mainly on calculus especially on the procedures of maxima and minima. Unsplash Career

In 1783, Legendre was offered a membership of the French Academy of Sciences post his research work on gravitational attraction of elliptical bodies. Unsplash Career

In 1784, he made an addition to the previous paper through ‘Recherches sur la figure des planets’, which marked the evolution of polynomials (most commonly known as Legendre Polynomial today), which along with transformational concepts are widely used in the field of physics and engineering. Unsplash Career

His work pertaining to curves carved by bombs and cannonballs and range calculation using velocity and angles of projection was recognized and acclaimed by the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1782. Unsplash Awards & Achievements

He also earned the membership of the British Royal Society in 1789. Unsplash Awards & Achievements

He was pension deprived on account of his not acknowledging a government candidate for the Institut National. However, post the change in government in 1828, Legendre became the Officer of the Legion d’ Honneur in 1831. Unsplash Awards & Achievements

He was made the Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1832. Unsplash Awards & Achievements

Information	Detail
Birthday	September 18, 1752
Died on	January 10, 1833
Nationality	French
Famous	Scientists, Mathematicians
Spouses	Marguerite-Claudine Couhin
Known as	Adrien M. Legendre
Birth Place	Paris, France
Gender	Male
Sun Sign	Virgo
Born in	Paris, France
Famous as	Mathematician
Died at Age	80

Adrien-Marie Legendre

French

Sep 18, 1752

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Paris, France