Adrien-Marie Legendre

Adrien-Marie Legendre

male, deceased (1833)
"méthode des moindres carrés", leastsquares, classical mechanics, prime number, French, lagrangian
Adrien-Marie Legendre was a French mathematician. He made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract algebra and mathematical...
Friedrich Robert Helmert

Friedrich Robert Helmert

male, deceased (1917)
normal distribution, Statistician, saxony, aachen, fisher, rwth aachen…leastsquares
Friedrich Robert Helmert was a celebrated German geodesist and an important writer on the theory of errors. After schooling in Freiberg and Dresden...
Ivan Sleszynski

Ivan Sleszynski

male, deceased (1931)
mathematician, scientist, ukrainian, continued fraction, mathematical logic, proof theory…leastsquares
Ivan Sleszynski (1854-1931) was a Ukrainian mathematician. Sleszynski's main work was on continued fractions, least squares and axiomatic proof...