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Adrien-Marie Legendre

1752 to 1833 4 documented presences 2 places

Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Adrien-Marie Legendre across 2 places, from 1752 to 1833. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Adrien-Marie Legendre (18 September 1752 – 9 January 1833) was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Adrien-Marie Legendre was documented, and when

18 September 1752exact date
Parisattested “Adrien-Marie Legendre was born in Paris on 18 September 1752 to a wealthy family.” source: Wikipedia: Adrien-Marie Legendre
1775 to 1795period
Parisattested “He taught at the École Militaire in Paris from 1775 to 1780 and at the École Normale from 1795.” source: Wikipedia: Adrien-Marie Legendre
1775 to 1795period
École Militaireattested “He taught at the École Militaire in Paris from 1775 to 1780 and at the École Normale from 1795.” source: Wikipedia: Adrien-Marie Legendre
9 January 1833exact date
Parisattested “Legendre died in Paris on 9 January 1833, after a long and painful illness, and Legendre's widow carefully preserved his belongings to memorialize him.” source: Wikipedia: Adrien-Marie Legendre

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Places Adrien-Marie Legendre is documented in

Paris3 presences · 1752 to 1833
École Militaire1 presence · 1775

Other places tied to Adrien-Marie Legendre in the record

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1770year
Parismentioned “He received his education at the Collège Mazarin in Paris, and defended his thesis in physics and mathematics in 1770.” source: Wikipedia: Adrien-Marie Legendre
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Collège Mazarinmentioned “He received his education at the Collège Mazarin in Paris, and defended his thesis in physics and mathematics in 1770.” source: Wikipedia: Adrien-Marie Legendre
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Collmentioned “He received his education at the Collège Mazarin in Paris, and defended his thesis in physics and mathematics in 1770.” source: Wikipedia: Adrien-Marie Legendre
1787year
Dovermentioned “To this end in 1787 he visited Dover and London together with Dominique, comte de Cassini and Pierre Méchain.” source: Wikipedia: Adrien-Marie Legendre
1799 to 1815period
École Militairementioned “From 1799 to 1812, Legendre served as mathematics examiner for graduating artillery students at the École Militaire and from 1799 to 1815 he served as permanent mathematics examiner for the École Polytechnique.” source: Wikipedia: Adrien-Marie Legendre
1824year
École Militairementioned “In 1824, Legendre's pension from the École Militaire was stopped because he refused to vote for the government candidate at the Institut National.” source: Wikipedia: Adrien-Marie Legendre

Documented at the same place, the same year

Louis Philippe I, Duke of OrléansParis · 1752Casimir PulaskiParis · 1775Frédéric ChopinFrance · 1833Jean-Baptiste JourdanFrance · 1833

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