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著名的数学家（Famous mathematician） 1. The Legendre Adrien-marie Legendre is the only remaining portrait of adrien-marie Legendre, the French numerologist, from September 18, 1752, January 10, 1833. In 1796, we guessed the law of the distribution of the primes, the later primes. In 1830, Legendre proved that fermats theorem n = 5, but in 1828 dirichlet had done the same work. The other contributions of Legendre include elliptic function theory, least square method, geodesic theory and so on. Legendre analysis is the main research areas (especially the elliptic integral theory), number theory, elementary geometry and celestial mechanics, and obtained many achievements, lead to the birth of a series of important theory. Legendre is one of the founders of the theory of elliptic integral theory. The principal contribution of Legendre to number theory is the quadratic reciprocity law, which is a fundamental theorem in the congruence theory. He was also one of the pioneers of analytic theory of mathematics, and concluded the distribution law of prime Numbers, prompting many mathematicians to study this problem. [edit] portrait of zhang guanli For more than a century, the same portrait has been used in reference to the portrait of Legendre. But in 2005, two students at the university of Strasbourg found that the painting was the same as the portrait of Louis Legendre, a politician from the French revolution who Shared the same name. The incident caused a lot of attention from French bloggers and traced the man to Louis Legendre. Painted with the politicians in the signature, and mathematicians have obvious respectively Legendre signature in the letter, but a mathematician Legendre living style is very low-key, no other portraits handed down, so has been no one found errors. In 2008, in the French library, he discovered the true portrait of mathematician le dede. [edit] see Gauss-legendre algorithm Legendre constant Legendre polynomials Legendre symbol Quadratic reciprocity law Le