Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues | |
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| Born | 6 October 1795 |
| Died | 17 December 1851 (aged 56) |
| 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.