Adrien-Marie Legendre
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French mathematician
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Why Is Adrien-Marie Legendre Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Adrien-Marie Legendre 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. He is also known for his contributions to the method of least squares, and was the first to officially publish on it, though Carl Friedrich Gauss had discovered it before him.
