Louis François Antoine Arbogast was a French mathematician, born at Mutzig in Alsace on 4 October 1759 and dead at Strasbourg, where he was professor, on 8 April 1803. He wrote on series and on the derivatives known by his name, and was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity, introducing the operator notation for the derivative of a function. He won a prize of the Saint Petersburg Academy with an essay allowing arbitrary discontinuous functions in the integration of partial differential equations, an idea later important to Cauchy, and in 1800 published a calculus treatise containing the first known statement of what is now called Faà di Bruno's formula. He also coined the term factorial.
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Louis François Antoine Arbogast (4 October 1759 – 8 April 1803) was a French mathematician.
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Home Biographies History Topics Map Curves Search Louis François Antoine Arbogast Quick Info Born 4 October 1759 Mutzig, Alsace Died 18 April 1803 Strasbourg, France Summary Louis Arbogast was a French mathematician who worked on the calculus of derivatives
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The first definite reference to him is in 1780 when he was 21 years old.
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Louis François Antoine Arbogast (4 October 1759-8 April 1803) was a French mathematician.
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In 1800, he published a calculus treatise where the first known statement of what is currently known as Faà di Bruno's formula appears, 55 years before the first published paper of Francesco Faà di Bruno on that topic.
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In 1800, he published a calculus treatise where the first known statement of what is currently known as Faà di Bruno's formula appears, 55 years before the first published paper of Francesco Faà di Bruno on that topic.
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