Edmond Laguerre
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1834 – 1886
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Who was Edmond Laguerre?
Edmond Nicolas Laguerre was a French mathematician, a member of the Académie française. His main works were in the areas of geometry and complex analysis. He also investigated orthogonal polynomials. Laguerre's method is a root-finding algorithm tailored to polynomials. He laid the foundations of a geometry of oriented spheres, including the Laguerre transformation or Transformation by reciprocal directions.
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- Born
- Apr 9, 1834
Bar-le-Duc - Also known as
- Лагерр, Эдмон Никола
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- École Polytechnique
- Died
- Aug 14, 1886
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on July 23, 2013
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