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, 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, (10[1])which concerns his namesake curvature for surfaces. (10[1]-5[1])This man (-5[1])names a function whose simplest form is the exponential of (10[1])minus x squared. (10[1])Systems of (10[1])linear equations can be solved by this man’s namesake elimination, (10[3])and he also names a distribution (10[1])whose graph is a bell curve. For 10 points, name this mathematician who gives his name to another name for the normal distribution. ■END■ (10[2])

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