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| | The Development of Analysis on the Continent |
 | | The most eminent of them are Cramer, de Gua, De Montmort, Fagnano, l'Hospital, Nicole, Parent, Riccati, Saurin, and Varignon. |
 | | Guillaume François Antoine l'Hospital, Marquis de St.-Mesme, born in Paris in 1661, and died there on Feb. 2, 1704, was among the earliest pupils of John Bernoulli, who, in 1691, spent some months at l'Hospital's house in Paris for the purpose of teaching him the new calculus. |
 | | He had two sons who wrote on several minor points connected with the integral calculus and differential equations: these were Vincenzo, who was born in 1707 and died in 1775, and Giordano, who was born in 1709 and died in 1790. |
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