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244:. In addition to his mathematics post, he was appointed as professor of physics at the Collège Royal in Strasbourg and from April 1791 he served as its rector until October 1791 when he was appointed rector of the University of Strasbourg; in 1794 he was appointed Professor of Calculus at the École centrale des travaux publics et militarisée (soon to become École Polytechnique) but he taught at the École préparatoire. 192: 337:
is believed to be the correct one. In fact, the confusion may come from the fact that his death was registered, in the Republican calendar, as 18 Germinal Year XI, which translates to 8 April 1803. See his death certificate in the Archives du
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Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne; ou, Histoire, par ordre alphabétique: de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs actions, leurs talents, leurs vertus ou leurs
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Academy. His entry was to bring him fame and an important place in the history of the development of the calculus. Arbogast submitted an essay to the St Petersburg Academy in which he came down firmly on the side of
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in Paris which was never published. In the Preface of a later work he described the ideas that prompted him to write the major report of 1789. Essentially he realised that there were no rigorous methods to show
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known by his name: he was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity, introducing systematically the operator notation
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The secondary literature leaves some uncertainty on the death date: some sources report 8 April instead of 18 April. It is possible that in reference
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His contributions to mathematics show him as a philosophical thinker. As well as introducing discontinuous functions, he described
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consisting of portions of different curves. Arbogast won the prize with his essay, and his notion of
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In 1789 he submitted in Strasbourg a major report on the differential and integral calculus to the
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with operational symbols. The formal algebraic manipulation of series investigated by
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Annali di Scienze Matematiche e Fisiche (Annals of Mathematics and Physics)
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Craik, Alex D. D. (February 2005), "Prehistory of Faà di Bruno's Formula",
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where the first known statement of what is currently known as
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La Physique à Strasbourg. Regards sur le passé (1621–1918)
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Itard, Jean (1970), "Arbogast, Louis François Antoine",
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The original version of this article was taken from the
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Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications
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appears, 55 years before the first published paper of
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He wrote on 797: 704: 655: 623: 421: 380: 302: 333:: however, the version given by the 259:in the 1770s was put in the form of 91:Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences 295: 164:for the derivative of the function 13: 878:19th-century French mathematicians 873:18th-century French mathematicians 801:Dictionary of Scientific Biography 778: 663:, in Kraus, I.; Mayet, N. (eds.), 14: 889: 832:"Louis François Antoine Arbogast" 819: 697:, Entirely freely available from 122:École d'Artillerie de Strasbourg 329:has been lost as a result of a 138:Louis François Antoine Arbogast 25:Louis François Antoine Arbogast 399: 386: 373: 360: 347: 218:partial differential equations 1: 708:American Mathematical Monthly 415: 195:Frontpage of Arbogast's book 656:Voltz, René (October 2001), 283:Rouse History of Mathematics 186: 7: 689:Arbogast, L. F. A. (1800), 407:Michaud & Michaud (1811 10: 894: 589:(4th ed.), New York: 428:Birembaut, Arthur (1959), 168:. 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Mutzig
Kingdom of France
Strasbourg
France
Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Mathematical analysis
Collège de Colmar
École d'Artillerie de Strasbourg
Université de Strasbourg
mathematician
Mutzig
Strasbourg
series
derivatives
calculus
treatise
Faà di Bruno's formula
Francesco Faà di Bruno

Colmar
St Petersburg
Euler
partial differential equations
piecewise functions
discontinuous function
Cauchy
Académie des Sciences
convergence of series
calculus
Lagrange

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