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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; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guillaume de l'Hôpital has received more than 426,418 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Guillaume de l'Hôpital is the 96th most popular mathematician (down from 90th in 2019), the 640th most popular biography from France (down from 622nd 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

Among mathematicians, Guillaume de l'Hôpital ranks 96 out of 1,004. Before him are Lars Ahlfors, Adrien-Marie Legendre, G. H. Hardy, Siméon Denis Poisson, Leopold Kronecker, and Gabriel Cramer. After him are Thābit ibn Qurra, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Isaac Barrow, Grigori Perelman, Joan Clarke, and Christian Goldbach.

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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 Marie Angélique de Scorailles, Georg Böhm, Antonio I, Prince of Monaco, Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine, Jahandar Shah, Christopher Polhem, and Princess Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach. 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 Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark, Georg Muffat, Jean-Baptiste Denys, Isabella Leonarda, Selim I Giray, and Charles Plumier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume de l'Hôpital ranks 640 out of 6,770. Before him are Gaston Leroux (1868), Paul Doumer (1857), Albert Fert (1938), Chlodomer (495), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), and Hugues de Payens (1074). After him are Emma of Normandy (985), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Ariovistus (-101), François Guizot (1787), Louis Blériot (1872), and Maurice Chevalier (1888).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Guillaume de l'Hôpital ranks 20. Before him are Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752), and Siméon Denis Poisson (1781). After him are Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Charles Hermite (1822), Girard Desargues (1591), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Alexis Clairaut (1713), and Étienne Bézout (1730).

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