Adrien Marie Legendre
Adrien Marie Legendre , 1752-1833, French mathematician. He is noted especially for his work on the theory of numbers, on which he wrote an essay (1798) containing the law of quadratic reciprocity as well as several supplements, all later incorporated in a definitive work, Théorie des nombres (1830). The results of his long study of elliptic integrals appeared in Traité des fonctions elliptiques (3 vol., 1825-32). He invented independently of C. F. Gauss, and was the first to state in print (1806), the method of least squares, and he collaborated in drawing up centesimal trigonometric tables. He taught at the École militaire, Paris, and at the École normale and was associated with the bureau of longitudes from 1812. His Éléments de géométrie (1794, tr. 1867) was an influential textbook.
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John Stuart Mill's odd combination: philosopher kings & laissez faire
Magazine article from: Review - Institute of Public Affairs; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; John Stuart Mill's odd combination: philosopher kings & laissez faire John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand by Richard Reeves (Reeves Atlantic Books...
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John Stuart Mill and India.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...39.40 U.S. India gets but passing mention in John Stuart Mill's autobiography yet he spent thirty-five years...Initiated by his father into their service in 1823, John Stuart Mill hung on at Leadenhall Street until the company...
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John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity...remorseless attack on the thought of John Stuart Mill: "An attempt...God, carries no purchase in Mill's consequentialist, temporally...traceable to Mill's influence. John Stuart Mill and the Religion of ...
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JOHN STUART MILL: VICTORIAN FIREBRAND By Richard Reeves Atlantic Books, 30
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 12/16/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...that set 17-year-old John Stuart Mill on the radical path...killed. Lined up against Mill in favour of Eyre were...Disraeli's government. John Stuart Mill died at his home in...s favourite servant, John Brown. Mill was buried...
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The authoritarian secularism of John Stuart Mill. .(John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Humanitas; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity, by Linda C. Raeder. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. 402 pp. $49.95. I first encountered John Stuart Mill in an undergraduate political theory survey course. As I recall...
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Lynn Zastoupil, John Stuart Mill and India.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; Lynn Zastoupil, John Stuart Mill and India (Stanford UP, 1994), 280 pp., $39.50 cloth. Lynn Zastoupil's John Stuart Mill and India results from the kind of research that has long...
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Capaldi, Nicholas. John Stuart Mill: A Biography.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; CAPALDI, Nicholas. John Stuart Mill: A Biography. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004...might be interested in reading a biography of a figure such as John Stuart Mill. One might be interested in learning about the particular...
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Capaldi, Nicholas. John Stuart Mill: A Biography.(Book review)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; CAPALDI, Nicholas. John Stuart Mill: A Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. xx, 436 pp. $40.00. Nicholas Capaldi's recent biography of John Stuart Mill was obviously a labor of love. The book is a tribute to...
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Mill versus liberty: a review of Linda C. Raeder's John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...understanding of Mill's thought as...Raeder's John Stuart Mill and the...were designed by Mill "as crucial...influence of James Mill and Jeremy Bentham...clearly that John Stuart's fundamental...Neither of the Mills believed that...
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John Stuart Mill versus the Supreme Court of Canada
Magazine article from: Literary Review of Canada; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; John Stuart Mill versus the Supreme Court of Canada Should freedom of expression trump...state's legitimate power of compulsion. In his classic On Liberty, John Stuart Mill wrote, "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised...
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Mill, John Stuart
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
MILL, JOHN STUART John Stuart Mill was the leading English political philosopher of the middle and late nineteenth century. Mill's writings on individual freedom, most notably the essay "On Liberty" (1859), have had a profound influence...
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John Stuart Mill
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Stuart Mill The English philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was the most influential British thinker of the 19th century. He is known for his writings on logic and scientific methodology and his voluminous essays on...
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James Mill
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
James Mill The Scottish...local lord, Sir John Stuart. He entered...eldest child. Mill completely supervised...Further Reading Mill's books have...Mill by his son John Stuart Mill in the Autobiography...Bruce, James and John Stuart Mill: ...
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Mill, James
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Mill, James 1773-1836...the patronage of Sir John Stuart, where he attended...pleasure and pain. Thus, Mill concluded that only...was at the center of Mill ’ s political...lessons for his son John Stuart Mill (1806 –...
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Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...philosophers, Gilbert Ryle and Stuart Hampshire. Their frequent philosophical...Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and John Austin (1790-1859), as well as their follower John Stuart Mills (1806-1873). Legal positivists...
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