Louis François Antoine Arbogast
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Louis François Antoine Arbogast (4 October 1759 – 8[1] April 1803) was a French mathematician. He was born at Mutzig in Alsace and died at Strasbourg, where he was professor. He wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name: he was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity, introducing systematically the operator notation DF for the derivative of the function F.[3] In 1800, he published a calculus treatise[4] where the first known[5] statement of what is currently known as Faà di Bruno's formula appears, 55 years before the first published paper[6] of Francesco Faà di Bruno on that topic.
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Louis François Antoine Arbogast | |
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Born | (1759-10-04)4 October 1759 |
Died | 18 April 1803(1803-04-18) (aged 43)[1] |
Nationality | French |
Awards | 1789 Prize of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences[2] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematical analysis |
Institutions | Collège de Colmar, École d'Artillerie de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg |
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