Adrien Marie Legendre

Adrien Marie Legendre (1752-1833) was a brilliant French mathematician, contemporary of Lagrange and Laplace, born at Toulouse. He obtained the professorship of Mathematics in the Military School at Paris, and was elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1783. He was one of the commissioners to determine the length of the metre, and held many posts under the Republic and the Empire. Among many works his best known is the "Elements of Geometry" (1794), translated into English by Carlyle.

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