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. It’s not Ostrogradsky, (10[1])but this man sometimes gives his name to the Divergence Theorem, as well as to the set obtained by adjoining i to the integers. (10[1])This man published the Theorema Egregium, (10[1])which concerns his namesake curvature for surfaces. (-5[1])This man names a function whose simplest form is the exponential of minus x squared. Systems of linear equations can be solved by (10[1])this man’s namesake elimination, (10[2]-5[1])and he also names (10[1])a distribution whose graph is a bell curve. (10[1])For 10 points, name this mathematician who gives his name to another name for the normal distribution. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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