Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947 ) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.

It is named after André-Marie Ampère ( 1775 – 1836 ), French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics.

In 1842, the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea, whom Babbage had met while travelling in Italy, wrote a description of the engine in French.

André-Marie Ampère ( 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836 ) was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as " electrodynamics ".

* 1789 – Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician ( d. 1857 )

* 1801 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician ( d. 1877 )

* 1798 – Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician ( d. 1840 )

André Weil (; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998 ) was an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition.

* 1956 – Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician

* 1602 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician ( d. 1675 )

* 1929 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician ( b. 1878 )

* 1652 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician ( d. 1719 )

* 1719 – Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian ( b. 1640 )

In 1736, he participated in the expedition organized for that purpose by the French Academy of Sciences, led by the French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis ( 1698 – 1759 ) to measure a degree of latitude.

The French mathematician and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin observed Arcturus in the daytime with a telescope ( a first for any star other than the sun ) in 1635, and has been seen at or just before sunset with the naked eye.

Blaise Pascal (; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662 ), was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.

This phenomenon is known as Bourget's hypothesis after the nineteenth century French mathematician who studied Bessel functions.

Nevertheless, it was the French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace, who pioneered and popularised what is now called Bayesian probability.

However, this statement for integers can be found already in the work of another French mathematician, Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac ( 1581 – 1638 ).

The French mathematician Augustin Louis Cauchy was the first to formulate such models in the 19th century, but research in the area continues today.

Cartesian means of or relating to the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes — from his name — Rene Des-Cartes.

The adjective Cartesian refers to the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes ( who used the name Cartesius in Latin ).

* 1855 – Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician ( b. 1803 )

* 1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter ( d. 2004 )

* 1509 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar ( d. 1546 )

* 1546 – Étienne Dolet, French scholar and printer ( b. 1509 )

* 1780 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher ( b. 1715 )

Lavoisier's devotion and passion for chemistry were largely influenced by Étienne Condillac, a prominent French scholar of the 18th century.

French Academy member Étienne Gilson summarized this long-known characteristic of the experienced world as follows :"... the word being is a noun ... it signifies either a being ( that is, the substance, nature, and essence of anything existent ), or being itself, a property common to all that which can rightly be said to be.

The first-ever affinity table, which was based on displacement reactions, was published in 1718 by the French chemist Étienne François Geoffroy.

* 1672 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist ( d. 1731 )

France became the focal point for the study after the eminent neurologist Dr. Étienne Eugène Azam presented Braid's research to the French Academy of Sciences.

* 1884 – Étienne Gilson, French philosopher ( d. 1978 )

* 1763 – Étienne Méhul, French composer ( d. 1817 )

* Joseph ( opera ), by the French composer Étienne Méhul

The French explorer Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont visited the people in the early 1720s.

* 1768 – Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, French commander ( d. 1815 )

* 1840 – Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician ( b. 1798 )

* 1730 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician ( d. 1783 )

* 1530 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer ( d. 1563 )

Étienne Lamotte, who translated one third of the work into French, felt that it was the work of a North Indian bhikṣu of the Sarvāstivāda school, who later became a convert to the Mahayana.

The French explorer Étienne Brûlé explored part of the area in 1610-12.

* 1599 – Étienne Moulinié, French Baroque composer ( d. 1676 )

When Hutchinson claimed all materials were property of the British Crown, a French scholar, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, said to Clarke and Hamilton that they would rather burn all their discoveries — referring ominously to the destruction of the Library of Alexandria — than turn them over.

* 1715 – Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher ( d. 1780 )

* 1814 – Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer, archaeologist, and historian ( d. 1874 )