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Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1833), one of the great French
mathematicians active in the Revolutionary period, made important
contributions to number theory, statistics, mathematical analysis
and algebra. He taught at the Ecole Militaire, where he was a
colleague of Laplace, and made his name with a paper on the
trajectory of projectiles which won a prize of the Berlin Academy
in 1782, and brought him to the attention of Lagrange. In 1794 he
published Elements de geometrie, which remained a textbook for over
100 years. The first edition of his Essai sur la theorie des
nombres was published in 1798, and the much improved second
edition, which is offered here, in 1808. In it Legendre had taken
account of criticism by Gauss of the mathematical proofs in the
first edition, though he was bitter at the manner in which his
younger rival had claimed credit for some of his solutions.
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