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Adrian Marie Legendre ( - )
From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, ) by W. W. Rouse Ball.
Adrian Marie Legendre was born at Toulouse on September 18, , and died at Paris on January 10, The leading events of his life are very simple and may be summed up briefly.
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He was educated at the Mazarin College in Paris, appointed professor at the military school in Paris in , was a member of the Anglo-French commission of to connect Greenwich and Paris geodetically; served on several of the public commissions from to ; was made a professor at the Normal school in ; and subsequently held a few minor government appointments.
The influence of Laplace was steadily exerted against his obtaining office or public recognition, and Legendre, who was a timid student, accepted the obscurity to which the hostility of his colleague condemned him.
Legendre's analysis is of a high order of excellence, and is second only to that produced by Lagrange and Laplace, though it