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MATHEMATICIAN

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 387,147 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Guillaume de l'Hôpital is the 90th most popular mathematician (down from 89th in 2019), the 623rd most popular biography from France (down from 614th in 2019) and the 18th 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 90 out of 823. Before him are Felix Klein, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Paul Erdős, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Alexander Friedmann, and Anthemius of Tralles. After him are Émilie du Châtelet, Stefan Banach, Leopold Kronecker, Joan Clarke, Siméon Denis Poisson, and Pierre Louis Maupertuis.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume de l'Hôpital ranks 623 out of 6,011. Before him are Peter Waldo (1140), Bertrand du Guesclin (1320), Paul Claudel (1868), Hugh the Great (898), Léonin (1135), and Yolande de Polastron (1749). After him are Juliette Gréco (1927), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Camille Flammarion (1842), Catherine of Valois (1401), and François Mansart (1598).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Guillaume de l'Hôpital ranks 18. Before him are Gaspard Monge (1746), Abraham de Moivre (1667), Marin Mersenne (1588), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), and Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752). After him are Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698), Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Girard Desargues (1591), and Charles Hermite (1822).

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