Notes:

(1) Born at Toulouse, September 18, 1752; died in Paris, January 10, 1833.

(2) Joseph Francois Marie (1738-1801), who edited Lacaille's Tables de Logarithmes (1768) and his Lecons elementaires de Mathematiques (1798), which had appeared in 1760 and 1741 respectively.

(3) Recherches sur la trajectoire des projectiles dans les milieux resistants.

(4) Elements de geometrie, Paris, 1794.

(5) Essai sur la theorie des nombres, Paris, 1798; 2d ed., paris, 1808, with suppolements in 1816 and 1825; 3d ed. under the title Theorie des nombres, Paris, 2 vols., 1830.

(6) Memoire sur les transcendates elliptiques, Paris, 1794; Traite des fonctions elliptiques et des integrales euleriennes, Paris, 1827-1832.

(7) On the history of this subject see M. Merriman, Method of Least Squares, p. 182 (New York, 1884); Transactions of Connecticut Academy, IV, 151 (1877), with complete bibliography to that date; Todhunter, Hist. Probability, Cambridge, 1865.