Talk:Guillaume de l'Hôpital
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the brachistochrone page says johann bernoulli solved the curve first?
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[edit] What did he die of
What did L'Hopital die of?
my theory, he was rolled for his money Duel me 12:51, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Spelling: French version
From the French Wikipedia version of this article:
Son nom s'écrit aussi L'Hospital. Contrairement à ce qu'on pourrait croire, l'accent circonflexe n'est pas un anachronisme : si son livre ne comporte pas de nom d'auteur, son ami Varignon, dans les compléments qu'il publia au livre (1725), écrit toujours son nom avec l'accent circonflexe, et dans l'encyclopédie de D'Alembert-Diderot, c'est « L'Hopital » qu'on trouve, sans accent ni s.
My translation: His name is also written as "l'Hospital." Contrary to what one might think, the circumflex accent is not an anachronism: even though his book did not carry his name, his friend Varignon, in the supplements that he published for the book (1725), always wrote his name with the circumflex accent, and in the encyclopedia of D'Alembert-Diderot, it is "L'Hopital" that one finds, without either the accent or the s.
What is the truth about the spelling of his name and the origin of the differing versions?
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[edit] What is this comment at the end of the article?
I totally don't understand what this person talks about.
1. It is wrong. If you don't require the numerator to converge at all, then what about cos x/x when x -> infinity? The limit is of course 0, but you gent divergent function if you differentiate both the numerator and the denominator.
2. It is out of place in the formatting. It looks like it mean to be some kind of talk, but it is in the main page, below "See also".
3. Any detailed description of the theorem should go the page of L'Hôpital's rule.
If there is no reaction to this, I'll remove that edit.
--Csab (talk) 15:18, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
