Edmond Laguerre

See also: Laguerre (surname)

Edmond Laguerre.

Edmond Nicolas Laguerre (April 9, 1834, Bar-le-Duc – August 14, 1886, Bar-le-Duc) was a French mathematician, 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, named after him.

Works

• (French) Oeuvres de Laguerre publ. sous les auspices de l'Académie des sciences par MM. Charles Hermite, Henri Poincaré, et Eugène Rouché. (Paris, 1898-1905) (reprint: New York : Chelsea publ., 1972 ISBN 0-8284-0263-9)

See also

• Laguerre–Samuelson inequality

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edmond Laguerre", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Laguerre.html .