THE HOSPITAL (GUILLAUME-FRANÇOIS-ANTOINE DE). - Lot 136

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THE HOSPITAL (GUILLAUME-FRANÇOIS-ANTOINE DE). - Lot 136
THE HOSPITAL (GUILLAUME-FRANÇOIS-ANTOINE DE). Analysis of the infinitely small, for the intelligence of curved lines. Second edition. Paris, Montalant, 1715. In-4 de XV, (1), 181, (1) pp., 11 p., contemporary marbled calf binding, decorated spine, red edges. Second edition. Eleven folding plates with no text. First treatise on differential calculus, published in 1696, the only work given during his lifetime by the author, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his time. The Hospital was the first to popularize differential calculus, to which he had been initiated by Jean Bernoulli and which had until then been known "only by five or six people" (Fontenelle). Here we find the "L'Hospital rule", allowing to find the limit value of a fraction whose numerator and denominator tend towards zero. Nice copy.
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