Legendre
Type: Person
As of November 2026, Legendre has been mentioned in one podcast episode on 3Blue1Brown (Sep 2025).
Adrien-Marie Legendre was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics. Well-known and important concepts such as the Legendre polynomials and Legendre transformation are named after him. He is also known for his contributions to the method of least squares, and was the first to officially publish on it, though Carl Friedrich Gauss had discovered it before him.
| Mentioned in | 1 episode on 1 podcast (as of November 2026) |
|---|---|
| First heard | Sep 2025 on 3Blue1Brown |
Who talks about Legendre on podcasts?
Legendre came up; the most recent mention was Sep 2025 on 3Blue1Brown.
What is Legendre mentioned alongside?
Legendre is most often mentioned alongside Ben Syverson, Euclid and Euclid's Elements.
Mentioned together: Ben Syverson, Euclid, Euclid's Elements, Viktor Blåsjö, Rene Descartes, Ibn Al Haytham, Omar Khayyam, Lagrange