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Member Forums => Yoni's Math Forum => Topic started by: Yoni on October 11, 2004, 07:12 PM

Poll
Question: Best French mathematician?
Option 1: Lagrange (calculus esp. differential equations, number theory)
Option 2: Fourier (Fourier transformation, Fourier series)
Option 3: Legendre (lots of calculus and number theory, FLT for n = 0 mod 5)
Option 4: l'Hopital (limit of ratio of functions equals to limit of ratio of derivatives)
Option 5: Lebesgue (calculus, topology, contributions to 20th century set theory)
Option 6: de Moivre (trigonometric representation of complex numbers)
Option 7: Fermat (lots of number theory)
Option 8: Darboux (calculus, an integral definition, differential geometry)
Option 9: Descartes (heavy work in algebra, Cartesian axes)
Option 10: Pascal (lots of combinatorics, Pascal's triangle)
Option 11: Mersenne (number theory, Mersenne primes)
Title: Best French mathematician?
Post by: Yoni on October 11, 2004, 07:12 PM
:)
Title: Re: Best French mathematician?
Post by: Akamas on October 11, 2004, 11:03 PM
Lagrange
Title: Re: Best French mathematician?
Post by: Yoni on October 12, 2004, 10:41 AM
Quote from: Akamas on October 11, 2004, 11:03 PM
Lagrange
Why?
Title: Re: Best French mathematician?
Post by: K on October 12, 2004, 11:05 PM
l'Hopital.

That theorem never fails to be useful.
Title: Re: Best French mathematician?
Post by: Rule on November 17, 2004, 07:31 PM
L'hopital didn't come up with l'hopital's rule.  It was the Bernoulli family (swedish) who came up with the rule, and then sold it to l'hopital.
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