When1: 1794
When2: 1830
Who: Adrien-Marie Legendre [Legendre, Adrien-Marie]
What: mathematician
Where: Paris, France
works\ Elements of Geometry [1794]; Theory of Numbers [1808]; Exercises in Integral Calculus [1811 to 1830]
Detail: He lived 1752 to 1833, studied number theory and elliptic integrals, and invented Legendre function and Legendre differential equation.
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