Guillaume François Antoine Marquis de L'Hôpital

1661 - 1704

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De L'Hôpital was a French mathematician who wrote the first textbook on calculus, which consisted of the lectures of his teacher Johann Bernoulli.
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List of References (11 books/articles)

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Additional Material in MacTutor

  1. L'Hôpital: Analyse des infiniment petits Preface

Other Web sites
  1. The Catholic Encyclopedia
  1. The Galileo Project
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