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Apr 09, 1834 Bar le Duc, Grand Est, France Died on 14 Aug 1886 (aged 52)
mathematician from France
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About Edmond Laguerre
- Edmond Nicolas Laguerre (9 April 1834, Bar-le-Duc – 14 August 1886, Bar-le-Duc) was a French mathematician and 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.
