Legendre

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* Adrien-Marie Legendre [r]: (1752 – 1833) important French mathematician whose name lives on in the Legendre polynomials and associated Legendre functions. [e]
* Legendre polynomials [r]: Orthogonal polynomials in the variable −1 ≤ x ≤ 1 and weight function w(x) = 1. [e]
* Associated Legendre function [r]: Function defined by Pℓ(m)(x)=(1−x2)m/2dmdxmPℓ(x) where Pℓ denotes a Legendre function. [e]
* Legendre-Gauss Quadrature formula [r]: the specific approximation of the integral with the sum of N terms, which becomes exact for the polynomial integrand of order < 2N. [e]