See Also: Legendre(dictionary)
Legendre's sign(medicine)
Legendre, Gaston(medicine)

Legendre (iou)



Legendre noun. L19.
[A. M. Legendre (1752-1833), French mathematician.]
Math. Used attrib. and in possess. to designate various expressions investigated by Legendre, esp. the differential equation (1x2)d2y/dx22xdy/dx+n(n+1)y=0, its solutions, and associated functions.
Legendre coefficient, Legendre function, Legendre polynomial, Legendre's coefficient, Legendre's function, Legendre's polynomial, etc.
Legendrian adjective L19.