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

• Notes sur la résolution des équations numériques. Paris: Gauthier-Villars. 1880. 
• Recherches sur la géométrie de direction; méthodes de transformation; anticaustiques. Gauthier-Villars. 1885. 
• (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

• Big q-Laguerre polynomials
• Gauss–Laguerre quadrature
• Gaussian beam
• Laguerre form
• Laguerre's method
• Laguerre–Pólya class
• Laguerre polynomials
• Meixner polynomials
• Orthogonal polynomials
• q-Laguerre polynomials
• Samuelson's inequality

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edmond Laguerre", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .