Guillaume de l'Hôpital, French mathematician and academic (born 1661)

Guillaume de l'Hôpital

French mathematician (1661–1704)

Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital 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…