Thank you to Adrien-Marie Legendre and Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi for their symbols
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4 min readFeb 8, 2022
In science, it is difficult to avoid Adrien-Marie Legendre, as there are so many things named after him: Fourier–Legendre series; Gauss–Legendre algorithm; Legendre chi function; Legendre duplication formula; Legendre–Papoulis filter; Legendre form; Legendre polynomials; Legendre sieve; Legendre symbol; Legendre transformation; Legendre wavelet…
