Edmond Laguerre

Edmond Nicolas Laguerre
Born (1834-04-09)April 9, 1834
Bar-le-Duc, France
Died August 14, 1886(1886-08-14) (aged 52)
Bar-le-Duc, France
Residence France
Fields Mathematics

Edmond Nicolas Laguerre (April 9, 1834, Bar-le-Duc – August 14, 1886, Bar-le-Duc) was a French mathematician,[1] a member of the Académie française (1885). His main works were in the areas of geometry and complex analysis. He also investigated orthogonal polynomials (see Laguerre polynomials). Laguerre's method is a root-finding algorithm tailored to polynomials. He laid the foundations of a geometry of oriented spheres (Laguerre geometry and Laguerre plane), including the Laguerre transformation or transformation by reciprocal directions.

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  1. "LAGUERRE, Edmond Nicolas". The New International Encyclopaedia. vol. 13 (2nd ed.). 1918. pp. 468–469.

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