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Louis François Antoine Arbogast
Louis François Antoine Arbogast (4 October 1759 – 8 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". In 1800, he published a calculus treatise where the first known statement of
- 24 April - Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, painter (born 1749).
- April - Louis François Antoine Arbogast, mathematician (born 1759).
- 29 May - Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, writer, poet, historian and biographer (born 1719).
- 6 June - Louis Gallodier, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. c1734).
Deaths July to December.
- 16 August - Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan, writer (born 1736).
- 5 September
- François Devienne,