Adrien-Marie Legendre

Watercolor caricature by Julien-Léopold Boilly (see {{Section link||Mistaken portrait}}), the only authentified portrait of Legendre<ref name="Duren2009">{{cite journal | last=Duren | first=Peter | title=Changing Faces: The Mistaken Portrait of Legendre | journal=[[Notices of the American Mathematical Society|Notices of the AMS]] | volume=56 | issue=11 |date=December 2009 | pages=1440–1443, 1455 | url=https://www.ams.org/notices/200911/rtx091101440p.pdf}}</ref> Adrien-Marie Legendre (; ; 18 September 1752 – 9 January 1833) was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics. Well-known and important concepts such as the Legendre polynomials and Legendre transformation are named after him. He is also known for his contributions to the method of least squares, and was the first to officially publish on it, though Carl Friedrich Gauss had discovered it before him. Provided by Wikipedia
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