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Best French mathematician?

Started by Yoni, October 11, 2004, 07:12 PM

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Best French mathematician?

Lagrange (calculus esp. differential equations, number theory)
Fourier (Fourier transformation, Fourier series)
Legendre (lots of calculus and number theory, FLT for n = 0 mod 5)
l'Hopital (limit of ratio of functions equals to limit of ratio of derivatives)
Lebesgue (calculus, topology, contributions to 20th century set theory)
de Moivre (trigonometric representation of complex numbers)
Fermat (lots of number theory)
Darboux (calculus, an integral definition, differential geometry)
Descartes (heavy work in algebra, Cartesian axes)
Pascal (lots of combinatorics, Pascal's triangle)
Mersenne (number theory, Mersenne primes)
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Akamas

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October 11, 2004, 11:03 PM
Lagrange
Quote from: Arta[vL] on August 14, 2006, 04:57 PM
Well, I want some too. Greedy Yoni should stop hogging it.

K

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October 12, 2004, 11:05 PM
l'Hopital.

That theorem never fails to be useful.

Rule

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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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