Talk:Adrien-Marie Legendre

message: I can't find Legendre's formula in the Englishpedia: 
 n! = \prod_{i=1}^{k} p_{i}^{ \sum_{j=1}^{\infin} \left[ \frac{n}{p_{i}^{j}} \right] }  
please would you so kind to tell me how do you call this in English and if you had an article about this? Thanks: Gubbubu 20:09, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: >his work on roots of polynomials inspired Galois theory;
Does anyone know what he concretely did? I think that it confuses Legendre with Lagrange. --132nd 05:07, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion with Lagrange 

message: How is his name pronounced? Better if in IPA please. --Octra Bond 23:33, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is in IPA now.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.53.52.21 (talk) 09:50, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: This article was automatically  assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 02:06, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Take care about the picture, it's Louis LEGENDRE, and *not* Adrien-Marie LE GENDRE.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Legendre_(homme_politique)
This information has been strongly verified here :
Proof : http://books.google.fr/books?id=eoMGAAAAQAAJ&dq=editions:02n1RXQ5uEKlRR2b
and I've received answers from the french "Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.218.144.116 (talk) 15:16, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ERRATUM 

message: 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 unsigned comment added by 205.232.191.16 (talk) 20:13, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed - don't know where to find a correct portrait though, unless we use the caricature on that page. — PhilHibbs | talk 20:19, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

text: 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:
Caricature of Legendre:
http://www.numericana.com/fame/legendre.jpg (100 x 125 pixels).
The entire page it has been clipped from (next to J.B Fourier): 
http://www.numericana.com/fame/legendre-fourier.jpg (758 x 595 pixels).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.122.80.77 (talk) 00:46, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

text: 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 (talk) 18:11, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Would an editor please include the CORRECT portrait 

message: :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 (talk) 18:11, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Adding explanation section