ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Guillaume de l'Hôpital
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Shortened version of his full name and title: Guillaume-François-Antoine Marquis de l'Hôpital, Marquis de Sainte-Mesme, Comte d'Entremont and Seigneur d'Ouques-la-Chaise.
French mathematician best known for L'Hôpital's Rule, although this was in fact discovered by Johann Bernoulli.
His name is alternatively rendered l'Hospital, which was how he himself rendered it - however, the French language changed and the silent s was changed to a circumflex.
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Nationality
French
History
- Born: 1661 in Paris, France (precise date uncertain).
- Died: 2 Feb 1704 in Paris, France.
Theorems
Books and Papers
- 1696: L'Analyse des Infiniment Petits pour l'Intelligence des Lignes Courbes (considered to be the first textbook on calculus)
- 1707: Traité anlytique des sections coniques
