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Legendre transformation
In mathematics, it is often desirable to express a functional relationship f(x), as a different function, whose argument is the derivative of f , rather than x . If we let p = df/dx be the argument of this new function, then this new function is written f^star(p), and is called the Legendre transform of the original function, after Adrien-Marie Legendre.
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