Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Adrien-Marie Legendre 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. Wikipedia
Born: September 18, 1752, Paris, France
Died: January 9, 1833 (age 80 years), Paris, France
Education: Collège des Quatre-Nations (1770) and University of Paris
Spouse: Marguerite-Claudine Couhin (m. 1793–1833)