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Adrien Marie Legendre (1752–1833)
Legendre, Adrien Marie (lė-zho
dr’). An eminent French mathematician; born in Paris, Sept. 18, 1752; died on Jan. 10, 1833. At twenty-two he was professor of mathematics in the Military School at Paris, and in 1783 was elected member of the Academy. He died in great poverty. His principal works are: ‘Elements of Geometry’ (1794); ‘Theory of Numbers’ (1798); ‘Treatise on Euler’s Elliptical and Integral Functions’ (3 vols., 1826–29).