| Question 1: Adrien-Marie Legendre (18 September 1752 – 10 January 1833) was a French ________. | |||
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| Question 2: In thermodynamics it is also used to obtain the ________ and the Helmholtz and Gibbs (free) energies from the internal energy. | |||
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| Question 3: He is known for the Legendre transformation, which is used to go from the ________ to the Hamiltonian formulation of classical mechanics. | |||
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| Question 4: The ________ crater Legendre is named after him. | |||
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| Question 5: His 1796 conjecture of the ________ was rigorously proved by Hadamard and de la Vallée-Poussin in 1898. | |||
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| Question 6: In number theory, he conjectured the quadratic reciprocity law, subsequently proved by Gauss; in connection to this, the ________ is named after him. | |||
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| Question 7: He developed the least squares method, which has broad application in linear regression, signal processing, statistics, and ________. | |||
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| Question 8: He made important contributions to statistics, number theory, ________ and mathematical analysis. | |||
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