Round 4: Tossup 17

It’s not Legendre (“luh-JOND”), but this mathematician names a method of computing the integrals of polynomials, his namesake quadrature. (10[1])It’s not Ostrogradsky, but this man sometimes gives his name to the Divergence Theorem, as well as to the set obtained by adjoining i to the integers. This man published the Theorema Egregium, which concerns his namesake curvature (10[1])for surfaces. This man names a function whose simplest form (10[1])is the exponential of minus x (10[1])squared. Systems of linear equations can be solved by this man’s namesake elimination, and he also names a distribution whose graph is a bell curve. For 10 points, name this mathematician who gives his name to another name for the normal distribution. ■END■

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