Olinde Rodrigues

Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues
Born	(1795-10-06)6 October 1795 Bordeaux, France
Died	17 December 1851(1851-12-17) (aged 56) Paris, France
Alma mater	University of Paris

Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues (6 October 1795 – 17 December 1851), more commonly known as Olinde Rodrigues, was a French banker, mathematician, and social reformer. In mathematics Rodrigues is remembered for Rodrigues' rotation formula for vectors, the Rodrigues formula for the Legendre polynomials, and the Euler–Rodrigues parameters.