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Legendre

American

[luh-zhahn-der, -zhahnd, luh-zhahn-dr^uh] / ləˈʒɑn dər, -ˈʒɑnd, ləˈʒɑ̃ drə /

noun

Adrien Marie 1752–1833, French mathematician.

Legendre British

/ ləʒɑ̃drə /

noun

Adrien Marie (adriɛ̃ mari). 1752–1833, French mathematician, noted for his work on the theory of numbers, the theory of elliptical functions, and the method of least squares

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There's a consensus that Paul Varry's death was a tragedy, but Ms Legendre doesn't think it had anything to do with him being a cyclist.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025

French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire Legendre said France was undertaking the operation with the help of European allies.

From Washington Times • Apr. 23, 2023

“There will be no impact on the friendship between our two countries,” Anne-Claire Legendre, a spokeswoman for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a news conference Friday.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023

The 4,000 French citizens registered in Burkina Faso are urged to stay at their homes, French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire Legendre said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2022

D'Alembert had demanded that the sequence of propositions should be determined by the order in which they had been discovered, but Legendre wisely ignored such an extreme and gave the world a very usable book.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

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