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Guillaume de l'Hôpital

1661 - 1704

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Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (French: [ɡijom fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃twan maʁki də lopital]; sometimes spelled L'Hospital; 7 June 1661 – 2 February 1704) was a French mathematician. His name is firmly associated with l'Hôpital's rule for calculating limits involving indeterminate forms 0/0 and ∞/∞. Although the rule did not originate with l'Hôpital, it appeared in print for the first time in his 1696 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guillaume de l'Hôpital is the 103rd most popular mathematician (down from 96th in 2019), the 657th most popular biography from France (down from 640th in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Mathematician.

Guillaume de l'Hôpital was a French mathematician and physicist who is most famous for his work on the differential calculus.

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Among mathematicians, Guillaume de l'Hôpital ranks 103 out of 1,004. Before him are Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Paul Erdős, John Wallis, Claude Shannon, and Felix Klein. After him are Adrien-Marie Legendre, Augustus De Morgan, Anthemius of Tralles, Émile Picard, Willebrord Snellius, and Paul Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1661, Guillaume de l'Hôpital ranks 5. Before him are Charles II of Spain, Louis, Grand Dauphin, Sukjong of Joseon, and Feodor III of Russia. After him are Georg Böhm, Marie Angélique de Scorailles, Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine, Antonio I, Prince of Monaco, Christopher Polhem, Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti. Among people deceased in 1704, Guillaume de l'Hôpital ranks 4. Before him are John Locke, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, and Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet. After him are Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, Georg Muffat, Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, Jean-Baptiste Denys, Charles Plumier, Isabella Leonarda, and Selim I Giray.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume de l'Hôpital ranks 657 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis I, Duke of Orléans (1372), Roger Garaudy (1913), Rashi (1040), Pierre Richard (1934), Darius Milhaud (1892), and Alexandre Millerand (1859). After him are Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Syagrius (430), Rudolph of France (890), Fulk, King of Jerusalem (1092), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), and Johnny Hallyday (1943).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Guillaume de l'Hôpital ranks 20. Before him are Marin Mersenne (1588), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Girard Desargues (1591), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Gaspard Monge (1746), and Siméon Denis Poisson (1781). After him are Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), Émile Picard (1856), Alexis Clairaut (1713), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), and Jacques Hadamard (1865).

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