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Legendre, Adrien Marie

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Brilliant French mathematician, contemporary of Lagrange and Laplace, born at Toulouse; 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", translated into English by Carlyle (1752-1833).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Legendre, Adrien Marie'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​l/legendre-adrien-marie.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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