Louis François Antoine Arbogast made a threefold contribution to mathematics. He is primarily known as a mathematics historian who organized Marin Mersenne's papers, as well as letters and miscellany of other scientists. Arbogast was also a...

1759-1803 French mathematician who achieved renown as a historian of mathematics and for his work on the philosophy of mathematics. Arbogast collected the papers of Martin Mersenne, Pierre de Fermat, René Descartes, Guillaume-François-Antoine...

1759-1803 French mathematician who introduced discontinuous functions and first considered the concept of calculus as operational symbols (operators). Arbogast was interested in the philosophy of mathematics as well as its practice. He started and...

Louis François Antoine Arbogast (October 4, 1759 - April 8,or April 18, 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...

On June 18, 1894, a crowd gathered in the small park on the southeastern tip of the Ile Saint-Louis in Paris to listen to Eugene Guillaume (1822-1905) dedicate a monument (Fig. 3) to Antoine Louis Barye, the French sculptor and painter who, during...

Byline: Paul A. Long Post staff reporter During camping and rafting trips with his students from Covington Latin School in the 1970s, former headmaster Paul Arbogast sometimes went skinny dipping in lakes or ponds. A misinterpretation of that activity is the...