Adrien-Marie Legendre
was born 256 years ago
18th September 1752

Legendre's major work on elliptic integrals provided basic analytical tools for mathematical physics. He gave a simple proof that is irrational as well as the first proof that ² is irrational.

Find out more at:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Legendre.html