Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French mathematician
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Guillaume de l'Hôpital
- Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (French: [gijom f??~swa ?~twan ma?ki d? lopital]; sometimes spelled L'Hospital; 1661 – 2 February 1704), also known as Guillaume-François-Antoine Marquis de l'Hôpital, Marquis de Sainte-Mesme, Comte d'Entremont and Seigneur d'Ouques-la-Chaise, was a French mathematician.
- His name is firmly associated with l'Hôpital's rule for calculating limits involving indeterminate forms 0/0 and 8/8.
- Although the rule did not originate with l'Hôpital, it appeared in print for the first time in his treatise on the infinitesimal calculus, entitled Analyse des Infiniment Petits pour l'Intelligence des Lignes Courbes.
- This book was a first systematic exposition of differential calculus.
- Several editions and translations to other languages were published and it became a model for subsequent treatments of calculus.
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