Guillaume de l'Hôpital
(Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Marquis de Sainte-Mesme; Paris, 1661- id ., 1704) French mathematician.A military man by profession, he became interested in the study of mathematics under the influence of Bernoulli and carried out the first complete exposition of the infinitesimal calculus in his work Analysis of the infinitely small for the understanding of curved lines ( 1696).The L'Hôpital rule allows to eliminate certain indeterminacies in the passage to the limit of the quotient of two functions, applying the differential calculus.
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