Adrien-Marie Legendre
1752 - 1833
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Legendre's major work on elliptic integrals provided basic analytical tools for mathematical physics. He gave a simple proof that π is irrational as well as the first proof that π2 is irrational.
Mathematicians born in the same country
| Honours awarded to Adrien-Marie Legendre (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1820 |
| Lunar features | Crater Legendre |
| Paris street names | Passage Legendre and Rue Legendre (17th Arrondissement) |
| Commemorated on the Eiffel Tower | |
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- Rouse Ball
- Kevin Brown (The Prime Number Theorem)
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