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.

French mathematician Étienne Bézout ( 1730 – 1783 ) proved this identity for polynomials.

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

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 )

Ampère also applied this same principle to magnetism, showing the harmony between his law and French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb ’ s law of magnetic action.

The separation of Crux from Centaurus is generally attributed to the French astronomer Augustin Royer in 1679, but other historians attribute the invention of Crux to Petrus Plancius in 1613.

According to Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, they initiated the French into a new way of laughing, and introduced people to the mystery and purport of colour by ideas.

* 1857 – Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor ( d. 1935 )

After seeing an early film of this event, French skiers / surfers Augustin Coppey, Olivier Lehaneur, Olivier Roland and Antoine Yarmola made their first successful attempts during the winter of 1983 in France ( Val Thorens ), using primitive, home-made clones of the Winterstick.

Léon Walras first formalized the idea of a one-period economic equilibrium of the general economic system, but it was French economist Antoine Augustin Cournot and English political economist Alfred Marshall who developed tractable models to analyze an economic system.

* August 21 – Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician ( d. 1857 )

** Augustin Alexandre Darthé, French revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1769 )

* May 23 – Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician ( b. 1789 )

* October 13 – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic ( b. 1804 )

** Augustin Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1763 )

* September 3 – Augustin Saint-Hilaire, French botanist and traveller ( b. 1799 )

* February 19 – Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, French general and diplomat ( b. 1773 )

* December 23 – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic ( d. 1869 )

* December 9 – Armand Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, French general and diplomat ( d. 1827 )

* Augustin Cochin ( politician ) ( 1823 – 1872 ), French politician and writer

* Augustin Cochin ( historian ) ( 1876 – 1916 ), French historian and grandson of the prior

Little Turtle emerged as a war chief by defeating the French military adventurer Augustin de La Balme.

Morvan ’ s Syndrome, or Morvan ’ s fibrillary chorea ( MFC ), is a rare autoimmune disease named after nineteenth century French physician Augustin Marie Morvan.

As early as 1760, the families of Augustin and Charles Grignon, French Canadian Métis, established a fur trade post along the rapids.

At this crucial juncture, Murat's chief of staff, General Augustin Daniel Belliard rode straight to the Emperor's Headquarters and, according to General Ségur who wrote an account of the campaign, told him that the Russian line had been breached, that the road to Mozhaysk, behind the Russian line, was visible through the gaping hole the French attack had pierced, that an enormous crowd of runaways and vehicles were hastily retreating, and that a final push would be enough to decide the fate of the Russian army and of the war.

Some notable musicians who were members of the orchestra include violinists Samuel Antek, Henry Clifton, Felix Galimir, Josef Gingold, Daniel Guilet ( concertmaster 1952-54 ), Harry Lookofsky, Mischa Mischakoff ( concertmaster 1937-1952 ), Albert Pratz, David Sarser, Oscar Shumsky, Herman Spielberg and Andor Toth ; violists Carlton Cooley, Milton Katims, William Primrose, and Tibor Serly ; cellists Frank Miller, Leonard Rose, Harvey Shapiro and Alan Shulman ; double bassists Homer Mensch and Oscar G. Zimmerman ; flutists Carmine Coppola, Arthur Lora and Paul Renzi ; clarinetists Augustin Duques, Al Gallodoro, David Weber and Alexander Williams ; saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer ; oboists Robert Bloom and Paolo Renzi ; bassoonists Elias Carmen, Benjamin Kohon, William Polisi, Leonard Sharrow and Arthur Weisberg ; French horn players Arthur Berv, Harry Berv, Jack Berv and Albert Stagliano ; and tuba player William Bell, among others.

Abbé Augustin Barruel ( October 2, 1741 – October 5, 1820 ) was a French Jesuit priest.