Round 3: Tossup 17

It’s not Legendre (“luh-JOND”), but this mathematician names a method of computing the integrals of polynomials, his namesake quadrature. (-5[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 (10[1])the Theorema Egregium, which concerns his namesake curvature for surfaces. (10[1])This man (10[1])names a function whose simplest form is the exponential of minus x squared. Systems of linear equations (10[1])can be solved by this man’s namesake elimination, (10[1])and (10[1])he also names a distribution whose graph is a bell curve. For 10 points, name this (10[1])mathematician who gives his name to another name for the normal distribution. ■END■ (10[1])

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