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1 LEGENDRE, Adrien Marie (1752-1833), a French mathematician, famous for the differential image + n(n + 1)y = 0 and its solutions Pn(x) and Qn(x) which bear his name. His other important contributions are in number theory, calculus of variations and elliptic integrals.

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