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Legendre equation
noun
Mathematics.
a differential equation of the form (1− x2 ) d2y/dx2 − 2 xdy/dx + a (a + 1) y = 0, where a is an arbitrary constant.
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Origin of Legendre equation1
First recorded in 1880–85; after A. M. Legendre
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