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please would you so kind to tell me how do you call this in English and if you had an article about this? Thanks:
Gubbubu20:09, 26 May 2005 (UTC)reply
Confusion with Lagrange
>his work on roots of polynomials inspired Galois theory;
Does anyone know what he concretely did? I think that it confuses Legendre with
Lagrange. --
132nd05:07, 1 November 2006 (UTC)reply
From what I can see, the "work on roots of polynomials" that inspired Galois theory was indeed Lagrange and not Legendre. They apparently knew of each other however, as professional contemporaries, and in fact, the roots of Legendre polynomials are significant. However, when it comes to the methods of finding roots that inspired Galois theory, that was primarily Lagrange, and it doesn't seem correct to attribute it to Legendre here, so I took it out.
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19:36, 21 September 2018 (UTC)reply
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BetacommandBot02:06, 27 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Would an editor please include the CORRECT portrait
Why include a silly caricature? If there's no good portrait, a silly caricature is not the best substitute. The best substitute is nothing. — Preceding
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205.232.191.16 (
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20:13, 7 October 2011 (UTC)reply
As pointed out by the previous poster, the portrait of an unrelated politician also called Legendre (who was born in the same year) has been misrepresented everywhere as the portrait of the mathematician... That wrong portrait was duly removed from this Wikipedia article a few months ago, but someone put it back! It would be nice to eliminate that VERY COMMON mistake once and for all by displaying here what's apparently the only extant portrait of Adrien-Marie Legendre! That portrait is a sketch drawn before 1820 (it's therefore in the public domain) which can be found in one of the links appearing at the end of the article, namely:
http://www.numericana.com/answer/record.htm#legendre—Preceding
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68.122.83.82 (
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10:57, 3 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Thanks for removing this pervasive erroneous portrait. Yes, the caricature on that page is the ONLY extant portrait and it's now in the public domain (no copyright). Could someone post it properly ASAP:
Interesting story! I thought a ghost jumped out at me when I came to this page after looking up
Legendre transformation. I'll add a short photo debacle section to this article so others don't have to waste the time I did investigating this matter (which is similar to the wasted time I spent investigating the
Robert Boyle photo destruction by Newton). Another common photo error is the mixing of
Lazare Carnot's photo with his son's photo
Sadi Carnot, such as in error on
this page. --
Libb Thims (
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18:11, 13 August 2010 (UTC)reply
If you can read the Conditions for use and make sure that we are allowed reupload the image to
Wikimedia Commons (or to English Wikipedia if we cannot upload it to Wikimedia Commons), please feel free to do so (after downloading the image in as high resolution as possible). Although the current portrait is so much funnier :D —
Kri (
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03:51, 9 November 2021 (UTC)reply
("Le portrait choisi pour notre livre a été fait sur un croquis donné par Legendre à Arago, en 1829, et transmis à mon père par le célèbre astronome." Translation: Barral says that the drawing of Legendre was given to his father by Arago.
Source).
Caution: there are like 2 versions of the Barral book 1889 and 1892 (see links : "une de 1889 intitulée "Histoire populaire des 72 savants dont les noms sont inscrits sur la grande frise de la Tour Eiffel" par les deux frères Barral (disponible que dans
certaines bibliothèques)
et une (plus complète a priori) de 1892 "Le Panthéon scientifique de la tour Eiffel" par Georges Barral sans son frère (chez
Gallica ou
Google Livres ).")
Thank you; that's great! Maybe we can create a gallery of all pictures now at the bottom of the page. In the last photo, is the statue of the correct Legendre? I see no first name, only the surname, so for all I know it potentially could be another Legendre. —
Kri (
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23:31, 14 December 2021 (UTC)reply