Legendre, LeGendre or Le Gendre is a French surname. It may refer to:
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Adrien-Marie Legendre
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 ...
(1752–1833), French mathematician
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Associated Legendre polynomials
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Legendre's equation
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Legendre polynomials
In physical science and mathematics, Legendre polynomials (named after Adrien-Marie Legendre, who discovered them in 1782) are a system of complete and orthogonal polynomials, with a vast number of mathematical properties, and numerous applica ...
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Legendre symbol
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Legendre transformation
In mathematics, the Legendre transformation (or Legendre transform), named after Adrien-Marie Legendre, is an involutive transformation on real-valued convex functions of one real variable. In physical problems, it is used to convert functions of ...
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Legendre (crater)
Legendre is a lunar impact crater that is located near the eastern limb of the Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its pare ...
, a lunar impact crater located near the eastern limb of the Moon
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26950 Legendre, a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 11, 1997
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Anne Legendre Armstrong (1927–2008), United States diplomat and politician
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Charles Le Gendre
Charles William or Guillaum Joseph Émile Le Gendre (August 26, 1830– September 1, 1899) was a French-born American officer and diplomat who served as advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan from 1872 to 1875 and as adv ...
(1830–1899), French-born American general and diplomat
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François Legendre (1763–1853), surveyor, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada
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Géraldine Legendre (born 1953), French-American cognitive scientist and linguist
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Gertrude Sanford Legendre (1902–2000), American socialite who served as a spy during World War II
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Jacques Legendre (disambiguation), several people
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Kevin Le Gendre
Kevin Le Gendre is a British journalist, broadcaster and author whose work focuses on Black music. He is deputy editor of ''Echoes'' magazine, has written for a wide range of publications, including ''Jazzwise'', ''MusicWeek'', '' Vibrations'', ' ...
, British journalist and broadcaster
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Louis Legendre
Louis Legendre (22 May 1752 – 13 December 1797) was a French politician of the Revolution period.
Early activities
Born at Versailles, he was keeping a butcher's shop in Saint Germain, Paris, by 1789. He was an ardent supporter of the ideas ...
(1752–1797), French politician of the Revolution period
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Louis Legendre (oceanographer)
Louis Legendre (; born 16 February 1945) is a Canadian-trained oceanographer whose later career took him to France.
Education
Legendre degreed in liberal arts (B.A.) and sciences (B.Sc., Zoology) at the University of Montreal in 1964 and 1967 ...
, Canadian oceanographer
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Pierre Legendre (historian) (born 1930), French historian of law and psychoanalyst
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Pierre Legendre (ecologist)
Pierre Legendre (born 5 October 1946), is a professor of ecology at Université de Montréal. He is the founder of Numerical Ecology, which is a quantitative subdiscipline of community ecology, with his brother the oceanographer Louis Legendre. ...
, Canadian numerical ecologist
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Richard Legendre (born 1953), former professional tennis player and a Quebec politician
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Robert LeGendre (1898–1931), American athlete
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Surnames of French origin