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Adrien-Marie Legendre (September 18, 1752 - January 10, 1833)
-His work on roots of polynomials inspired Galois Theory. -Developed the least squares method, which has broad application in linear regression, stats, and curve fitting. -Conjectured the quadratic reciprocity law (later proven by Gauss) -Known for the Legendre transform, which is applied in classical mechanics.