Talk:Johann Bernoulli
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Ok, well I have a small biography laying around in my archives somewhere, I will expand on it in my free time and add the content to this article after reviewing my sources once more. This will be my first edit to Wikipedia, so I shall apologize in advance if the style or format are eye-sores.
--Scarabdrac 23:11, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Has no one mentioned that Johann, or Jean, Bernoulli developed most of L'Hospital's rule on indeterminate forms? Or at least that Johann was a teacher of G.F.A. de L'Hospitalin the Leibnizian discipline of mathematics in 1692? Jean Bernoulli did more than work on "problem of a particle moving in a gravitational field." He practically wrote L'Hospital's rule, one of the fundamental concepts in calculus that is applied to tangent lines and points of inflection on indeterminate forms. I don't know where to find them specifically, but recently correspondence between Bernoulli and L'Hospital have been published which supports Bernoulli's claims of plagiarism regarding the "Analyse," where the rule was first published.
--Scarabdrac 13:02, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
I removed some information on L'Hopital's rule because it seems to me that readers interested in it can find information on it in its article.
Rock soup 00:16, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
