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Legendre polynomials
The Legendre polynomials are a sequence of orthogonal polynomials on [-1, 1], introduced by Adrien-Marie Legendre in 1784 and used in numerical analysis and mathematical physics.
Legendre symbol
The Legendre symbol, also called the quadratic residue symbol, is a function from number theory that tells whether an integer is a quadratic residue modulo an odd prime p.
Legendre transformation
The Legendre transformation, or Legendre transform, re-expresses a convex function in terms of its slope instead of its value, a key tool of convex analysis.
Legendre's conjecture
Legendre's conjecture is an unsolved problem in number theory stating that there is at least one prime between every pair of consecutive squares, proposed by Adrien-Marie Legendre in 1808 and still unproven.
Legends (2026 TV series)
Legends is a 2026 Netflix British crime drama created by Neil Forsyth, starring Tom Burke, Steve Coogan, and Hayley Squires as 1990s Customs officers using fake identities to infiltrate drug gangs; renewed for season 2 in 2026.
Legends (Sabaton album)
Legends is Swedish power metal band Sabaton's eleventh studio album, released October 17, 2025 on Better Noise Music. Its eleven songs each portray a legendary historical figure, from Senusret III and Genghis Khan to Napoleon and Gustavus Adolphus.
Legends (TV series)
Legends (TV series) covers two unrelated crime dramas: Neil Forsyth's 2026 Netflix British series about 1990s undercover customs officers fighting heroin gangs, starring Steve Coogan and Tom Burke, and the 2014–2015 TNT spy thriller starring Sean Bean as FBI agent Martin Odum, based on Robert Littell's novel.
Legends Never Die (Juice Wrld album)
Legends Never Die, the first posthumous Juice WRLD album (Grade A/Interscope, July 10, 2020), debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 497,000 units and six Hot 100 top-10 singles.
Legends of Catherine the Great
Legends of Catherine the Great: the sexual myths and political tales around Empress Catherine II of Russia (1762-1796), including the false horse-death story, Potemkin villages, and her memoir-based self-defense.
Legends of Mount Shasta
Legends of Mount Shasta: Indigenous sacred traditions and Euro-American occult lore, including Lemurians, Telos, the I AM Activity, Bigfoot, and UFOs, attached to the 14,179-foot California volcano.
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return is a 2014 computer-animated musical sequel to The Wizard of Oz, based on Roger S. Baum's Dorothy of Oz, directed by Will Finn and Dan St. Pierre, a $70 million critical and box-office flop tied to a $103 million investor fundraising controversy.
Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants (射雕英雄传：侠之大者)
Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants (射雕英雄传：侠之大者) is Tsui Hark's 2025 wuxia film adapting Jin Yong's novel chapters 34–40, starring Xiao Zhan and Zhuang Dafei; it earned 689 million yuan, a Chinese wuxia box-office record, with divided reviews.
Legends of the Fall
Legends of the Fall is a 1994 American epic drama directed by Edward Zwick, adapted from Jim Harrison's 1979 novella, starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Aidan Quinn as Montana brothers torn apart by World War I and love; it won the Oscar for Best Cinematography.
Legends of the Hidden Temple
Legends of the Hidden Temple is a Nickelodeon children's action-adventure game show (1993–1995, 120 episodes) created by David G. Stanley, Scott A. Stone, and Stephen Brown, hosted by Kirk Fogg with Olmec voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, later revived as a 2016 TV movie and a 2021 CW adult reboot.
Legends of the Three Kingdoms (三国杀)
Legends of the Three Kingdoms (三国杀, San Guo Sha) is a Chinese hidden-identity card game based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms and adapted from Bang!, first printed in 2008 by Yoka, with Lord/Loyalist/Rebel/Traitor roles, over 100 million players, and online, mobile, and esports versions.
Legends of Tomorrow
DC's Legends of Tomorrow (The CW, 2016-2022) is an Arrowverse time-travel superhero series about misfit heroes aboard the Waverider fixing timeline aberrations; known for its shift from serious drama to absurdist comedy, seven seasons, and a cliffhanger cancellation.
Legends Tower
Legends Tower is a proposed 1,907-foot, 134-story skyscraper in Oklahoma City's Bricktown neighborhood that, if built, would be the tallest building in the United States and North America.
Legendury Beatz
Legendury Beatz are a Nigerian record production and songwriting duo of brothers Uzezi and Okiemute Oniko, known for Wizkid's "Ojuelegba" and "Essence" and named among Billboard's top 10 R&B producers in 2021.
Léger-Félicité Sonthonax
Léger-Félicité Sonthonax (1763–1813) was a French lawyer and revolutionary who, as civil commissioner of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), proclaimed the abolition of slavery in the colony's Northern Province on 29 August 1793.
Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease
Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease (LCPD, Perthes disease) is idiopathic avascular necrosis of the femoral head in children aged about 4–8, male-to-female 4:1, described by Legg, Calvé, and Perthes around 1910, healing over 2–4 years.
Legged Gym
Legged Gym is an open-source reinforcement learning framework from ETH Zurich's Robotic Systems Lab that trains quadruped and humanoid locomotion policies using NVIDIA's Isaac Gym.
Legged underwater robot
A legged underwater robot (ULR) is a benthic robot that walks on the seabed on legs, a bioinspired alternative to propeller-driven vehicles offering stability and low environmental disturbance.
Leggett–Garg inequality
The Leggett–Garg inequality is a mathematical constraint, derived by Anthony Leggett and Anupam Garg in 1985, that quantum mechanics violates in superconducting qubits, photons, and neutrino oscillations.
Legging (canals)
Legging is a way of moving a boat through a canal tunnel without a towpath: a person lies on their back and pushes against the tunnel roof or walls with their legs.
Leggings
Leggings are tight-fitting trousers made of stretchy knit fabric, typically 10 percent or more elastane; the word also covers protective leg coverings worn over ordinary trousers.
Leghorn chicken
Leghorn chicken, Italian egg-layer breed from Tuscany named for Livorno; white eggs, 200-300+ per year, flighty, non-broody; White Leghorn crosses dominate commercial white-shell egg production; APA recognized since 1874.
Legia Warsaw
Legia Warsaw (Legia Warszawa), nicknamed Wojskowi, is a Polish football club founded in 1916 by soldiers of the Polish Legions, winner of 15 recognized league titles and 21 Polish Cups, playing at Łazienkowska 3.
Legian Beach
Legian Beach (Pantai Legian) is a two-kilometre west-facing beach in South Bali, Indonesia, between Kuta and Seminyak, known for sunsets, beginner surfing, rip current hazards, and ongoing coastal conservation works.
Legibility (typography)
Legibility in typography is how easily individual letters and words can be recognized, distinct from readability, and is shaped by type size, typeface, spacing, and contrast.
Legibility of robot motion
Legibility of robot motion is the property of a robot's movement that lets a human observer quickly infer its intent, formalized by Anca Dragan and Siddhartha Srinivasa at Carnegie Mellon University.