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Adrien Legendre
Adrien Legendre
Portrait of Adrien Legendre, geometer
Biography
Adrien Legendre is one of 72 scientists whose name is on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower.
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He is 17th, on the face facing North.
Adrien-Marie Legendre, a surveyor, was born in Paris, on September 18, He died at Auteuil on January 9, He is one of the most illustrious representatives of the mathematical sciences and his name can be inscribed alongside those of Euler, Laplace, Monge, Lalande, Lagrange, Poinsot.
He made some first-rate discoveries and his life was long, peaceful, useful, glorious, all devoted to the cults of pure geometry. Coming from a poor family, he had the good fortune to be taken in affection by the Abbe Marie, who was in charge of the mathematics course at the Mazarin College, and to become, after finishing his classes, D'Alembert's protégé, who did so.
appoint a professor at the Ecole Militaire de Paris. Having the daily bread, he had the idea to compete for the pri