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  1. Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, from the Works of A.M. Legendre by Adrien Marie Legendre, 2010-01-11
  2. Eléments De Géométrie (French Edition) by Adrien Marie Legendre, 2010-01-10
  3. Éléments De Géométrie: Avec Des Notes (French Edition) by Adrien Marie Legendre, 2010-02-22
  4. Elements of Geometry, After Legendre: With a Selection of Geometrical Exercises, and Hints for the Solution of the Same by Adrien Marie Legendre, Charles Scott Venable, 2010-04-02
  5. Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry from the Works of A.M. Legendre: Adapted to the Course of Mathematical Instruction in the United States by Charles Davies, Adrien Marie Legendre, et all 2010-02-22
  6. Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry: From the Works of A.M. Legendre by Charles Davies, Adrien Marie Legendre, 2010-01-11
  7. Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry Translated from the French of A.M. Legendre by David Brewster: Revised and Adapted to the Course of Mathematical Instruction in the United States by Charles Davies, Adrien Marie Legendre, et all 2010-01-12
  8. Elements Of Geometry, After Legendre,: With A Selection Of Geometrical Exercises, And Hints For The Solution Of The Same (1881) by Adrien Marie Legendre, Charles Scott Venable, 2008-08-18
  9. Nouvelles Méthodes Pour La Détermination Des Orbites Des Comètes (French Edition) by Adrien-Marie Legendre, 2010-03-25
  10. Éléments De Géométrie (French Edition) by Adrien Marie Legendre, Marie Alphonse Blanchet, 2010-02-04
  11. Exercices De Calcul Intégral Sur Divers Ordres De Transcendantes Et Sur Les Quadratures, Volume 3 (French Edition) by Adrien Marie Legendre, 2010-01-11
  12. Elements of Geometry by Adrien Marie Legendre, 2010-01-12
  13. Traité Des Fonctions Elliptiques Et Des Intégrales Eulériennes: (1826) Méthodes Pour Construire Les Tables Elliptiques. Recueil Des Tables Elliptiques. ... Eulériennes. Appendice (French Edition) by Adrien Marie Legendre, 2010-03-29
  14. Exercices De Calcul Integral V2: Sur Divers Ordres De Transcendantes Et Sur Les Quadratures (1817) (French Edition) by Adrien Marie Legendre, 2010-05-23

1. Adrien-Marie Legendre
AdrienMarie Legendre. 1752-1833. There are few details of Adrien-Marie Legendre's early life. He certainly came from a wealthy family who lived in Paris, and he was given a top quality education in
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From 1775 to 1780 he taught with Laplace at Ecole Militaire. He then decided to enter for the 1782 prize on projectiles offered by the Berlin Academy. His essay won the prize and launched Legendre on his research career, as he came to the notice of Lagrange, then Director of Mathematics at the Academy in Berlin. Over the next few years Legendre published work in a number of areas. In particular he published papers on celestial mechanics which contain the Legendre polynomials. He also published papers on number theory and the theory of elliptic functions. A 1785 paper on number theory contains a number of important results, such as the law of quadratic reciprocity for residues, and the results that every arithmetic series with the first term coprime to the common difference contains an infinite number of primes. In 1794, Legendre published , which was the leading elementary text on the topic for around 100 years. This text greatly rearranged and simplified many of the propositions from Euclid's Elements to create a more effective textbook.

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Adrien-Marie Legendre would perhaps have disliked the fact that this article contains details of his life for Poisson wrote of him in [12]:- Our colleague has often expressed the desire that, in speaking of him, it would only be the matter of his works, which are, in fact, his entire life. From 1775 to 1780 he taught with Laplace d'Alembert . He then decided to enter for the 1782 prize on projectiles offered by the Berlin Academy. The actual task was stated as follows:- Determine the curve described by cannonballs and bombs, taking into consideration the resistance of the air; give rules for obtaining the ranges corresponding to different initial velocities and to different angles of projection. His essay won the prize and launched Legendre on his research career. In 1782 Lagrange was Director of Mathematics at the Academy in Berlin and this brought Legendre to his attention. He wrote to

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AdrienMarie Legendre (1752 - 1833). It is a matter for considerableregret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with
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It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered. In truth, Messrs Euler and Lagrange, who have not distained this kind of research, have proved most of these theorems, and have even substituted extensive theories for the isolated propositions of Fermat. But there are several proofs which have resisted their efforts.
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Adrien-Marie Legendre September 18 January 10 ) was a French mathematician . He made important contributions to statistics number theory abstract algebra and mathematical analysis Most of his work was brought to perfection by others: his work on roots of polynomials inspired Galois theory Abel 's work on elliptic functions was built on Legendre's; some of Gauss ' work in statistics and number theory completed that of Legendre. In he gave a proof of Fermat's last theorem for exponent n = 5, which was given almost simultaneously by Dirichlet in In number theory, he conjectured the quadratic reciprocity law, subsequently proved by Gauss. He also did pioneering work on the distribution of primes , and on the application of analysis to number theory. His conjecture of the Prime number theorem was rigorously proved by Hadamard and in Legendre did an impressive amount of work on elliptic functions, including the classification of elliptic integrals , but it took Abel's stroke of genius to study the inverses of Jacobi 's functions and solve the problem completely.

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Mort el 10 de gener de 1833 a Paris, França Collège Mazarin a Paris. En els 18 anys Legendre va defensar la seva tesis en matemàtiques i física al Collège Mazarin Ecole Militaire El seu treball Recherches sur la trajectoire de projectiles dans les milieux résistants recherches sur la figure des planètes (1784)), teoria de nombres( (1785)), teoria sobre funcions el·líptiques(treball sobre integrals el·líptiques(1786)) Royal Observatory at Greenwich . Per els treball fet amb aquest observatori fou elegit membre de la Royal Society of London i va desemboca en la publicació de Mémoire sur les opérations trigonométriques dont les résultats dépendent de la figure de la terre que conté el teorema de Legendre sobre triangles esfèrics. El 1791 Legendre es va convertir a membre del comitè de pesos i mesures. Quan la acadèmia va ser tancada al 1793 Legendre va tenir dificultats perquè va perdre el capital que li proporcionava una vida còmoda. El 1794 publica Éléments de Géometrie que va ser el manual elemental sobre aquesta matèria durant uns cent anys.

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Adrien-Marie Legendre September 18 January 10 ) was a French mathematician . He made important contributions to statistics number theory abstract algebra and mathematical analysis Most of his work was brought to perfection by others: his work on roots of polynomials inspired Galois theory Abel 's work on elliptic functions was built on Legendre's; some of Gauss ' work in statistics and number theory completed that of Legendre. In he gave a proof of Fermat's last theorem for exponent n = 5, which was given almost simultaneously by Dirichlet in In number theory, he conjectured the quadratic reciprocity law, subsequently proved by Gauss. He also did pioneering work on the distribution of primes , and on the application of analysis to number theory. His conjecture of the Prime number theorem was rigorously proved by Hadamard and in Legendre did an impressive amount of work on elliptic functions, including the classification of elliptic integrals , but it took Abel's stroke of genius to study the inverses of Jacobi 's functions and solve the problem completely.

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History and Epistemology for Mathematics Education Storia ed Epistemologia per la Didattica della Matematica Géométrie by Legendre (1846) Géométrie di Legendre (1846) Legendre, A.M. (1846), Éléments de Géométrie , Firmin Didot Frères, Paris (XIV ed.) LEGENDRE Adrien-Marie (1752-1833) Livre I. Les principes (pp. 1-32). Livre II. le cercle et la mesure des angles (pp. 33-59). Livre III. Les proportions des figures (pp. 60-107). Livre IV. Les polygones réguliers et la mesure du cercle (pp. 108-136). Livre V. Les plans et les angles solides (pp. 137-160). Livre VI. Les polyèdres (pp. 161-200). Livre VII. La sphère (pp. 201-239). Livre VIII. Les trois corps ronds (pp. 240-271). Notes sur les Éléments de Géométrie (pp. 273-336). Traité de Trigonométrie (pp. 337-431). See moreover: Si veda inoltre: Euclide Euclide Megarense acutissimo philosoph o, solo introduttore delle scientie mathematice , Tartaglia, N. (Ed.), Bariletto, Venezia. Euclide Elementorum Libri XV , Clavio, C. (Ed.), Zannetto, Roma (IV ed.). Euclide Elementorum Libri XV , Commandino, F. (Ed.), Concordia, Pesaro (I ed.: Pesaro, 1572).

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Adrien-Marie Legendre September 18 January 10 ) was a French mathematician . He made important contributions to statistics number theory abstract algebra and mathematical analysis Most of his work was brought to perfection by others: his work on roots of polynomials inspired Galois theory Abel 's work on elliptic functions was built on Legendre's; some of Gauss ' work in statistics and number theory completed that of Legendre. In he gave a proof of Fermat's last theorem for exponent n = 5, which was given almost simultaneously by Dirichlet in In number theory, he conjectured the quadratic reciprocity law, subsequently proved by Gauss. He also did pioneering work on the distribution of primes , and on the application of analysis to number theory. His conjecture of the Prime number theorem was rigorously proved by Hadamard Legendre did an impressive amount of work on elliptic functions, including the classification of elliptic integrals , but it took Abel's stroke of genius to study the inverses of Jacobi 's functions and solve the problem completely.

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Adrien-Marie Legendre September 18 January 10 ) was a French mathematician . He made important contributions to statistics number theory abstract algebra and mathematical analysis Most of his work was brought to perfection by others: his work on roots of polynomials inspired Galois theory Abel 's work on elliptic functions was built on Legendre's; some of Gauss ' work in statistics and number theory completed that of Legendre. In he gave a proof of Fermat's last theorem for exponent n = 5, which was given almost simultaneously by Dirichlet in In number theory, he conjectured the quadratic reciprocity law, subsequently proved by Gauss. He also did pioneering work on the distribution of primes , and on the application of analysis to number theory. His conjecture of the Prime number theorem was rigorously proved by Hadamard Legendre did an impressive amount of work on elliptic functions, including the classification of elliptic integrals , but it took Abel's stroke of genius to study the inverses of Jacobi 's functions and solve the problem completely.

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Adrien-Marie Legendre francoski matematik 18. september Pariz ... 10. januar , Pariz. Legendre je pomembno prispeval k statistiki teoriji števil abstraktni algebri in matematični analizi Od leta do je poučeval na vojaški šoli (Ecole Militaire) v Parizu. Kasneje je služboval v raznih državnih službah, ko je bil npr. profesor na Ecole Normale, izpraševalec na Ecole Polytechnique in nadzornik geodetskih meritev. Prav tako kot Gauss je tudi Legendre ustvaril nekaj temeljnih del iz teorije števil, Essai sur les nombres in Theorie des nombres , kjer je oblikoval kvadratni recipročnostni zakon. Večino njegovega dela so izpopolnili drugi; njegovo delo o korenih polinomov je navdihnilo Galoisovo teorijo Abelevo delo o eliptičnih funkcijah je gradilo na Legendrovem; posamezni deli Gaussovega dela na področju statistike in teorije števil so dopolnili Legendrovo delo. Pomembno delo je opravil tudi v geodeziji in teoretični astronomiji , bil pa je prav tako neutruden sestavljalec tabel kot Gauss. Leta je oblikoval metodo najmanjših kvadratov in proučeval privlačnost elipsoidov , celo tistih, ki niso rotacijske ploskve. Tu je uvedel

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Legendre besuchte das Collège Mazarin . Von bis lehrte er an der Pariser Militärakademie. erhielt er den Auftrag, zusammen mit Sassini und Mechain einen Breitengrad zwischen Dünkirchen und Boulogne auszumessen. Über die Ergebnisse berichtet die Schrift "Exposé des operations, faites en France en 1787" (Paris 1792). wurde er Mitglied der Kommission zur Neuordnung der Maße und Gewichte. heiratete er und ab lehrte er an der Ecole Normale. wurde er zum lebenslänglichen Vorsteher der Universität, zum Ehrenmitglied Kommission für den öffentlichen Unterricht und zum Examinator an der Ecole Polytechnique als Nachfolger von Laplace ernannt. Nachdem er sich mit der Regierung überworfen hatte, erhielt er keine Pensionen mehr. Er verarmte und starb 1833 in Paris. Besondere Verdienste erwarb sich Legendre durch seine Arbeiten über elliptische Integrale und durch seine Untersuchungen über elliptische Sphäroide. Unabhängig von

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AdrienMarie Legendre. Adrien-Marie Legendre s major work on elliptic integralsprovided basic analytical tools for mathematical physics.
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(Alphabetically) Next Welcome page Adrien-Marie Legendre 's major work on elliptic integrals provided basic analytical tools for mathematical physics. Laplace d'Alembert In 1782 Legendre determined the attractive force for certain solids of revolution by introducing an infinite series of polynomials P which are now called Legendre polynomials. His major work on elliptic functions in (1811,1817,1819) and elliptic integrals in (1825,1826,1830) provided basic analytical tools for mathematical physics. In his famous textbook
(1794 )he gave a simple proof that is irrational as well as the first proof that is irrational and conjectured that is not the root of any algebraic equation of finite degree with rational coefficients i.e. is not algebraic. His attempt to prove the parallel postulate extended over 40 years. In 1824 Legendre refused to vote for the government's candidate for Institut National. Because of this his pension was stopped and he died in poverty. Abel wrote in October 1826 Legendre is an extremely amiable man, but unfortunately as old as the stones.

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Adrien-Marie Legendre would perhaps have disliked the fact that this article contains details of his life for Poisson wrote of him in [12]:- Our colleague has often expressed the desire that, in speaking of him, it would only be the matter of his works, which are, in fact, his entire life. It is not surprising that, given these views of Legendre, there are few details of his early life. We have given his place of birth as Paris, as given in [1] and [2], but there is some evidence to suggest that he was born in Toulouse and the family moved to Paris when he was very young. He certainly came from a wealthy family and he was given a top quality education in mathematics and physics at the Collège Mazarin in Paris. In 1770, at the age of 18, Legendre defended his thesis in mathematics and physics at the Collège Mazarin but this was not quite as grand an achievement as it sounds to us today, for this consisted more of a plan of research rather than a completed thesis. In the thesis he listed the literature that he would study and the results that he would be aiming to prove. With no need for employment to support himself, Legendre lived in Paris and concentrated on research. From 1775 to 1780 he taught with Laplace at École Militaire where his appointment was made on the advice of d'Alembert. He then decided to enter for the 1782 prize on projectiles offered by the Berlin Academy. The actual task was stated as follows:-

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