A historical walkthrough with L’Hospital, from indeterminates to applied problems in mathematics
Luisito Abueg
MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany
Abstract:
A mathematical-historical revisit of the controversy of GFA L'Hospital and J Bernoulli, and related developments in the history of calculus in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This paper presents some of the indeterminate forms occurring in problems in mathematics and statistics relevant to economic analysis.
Keywords: calculus; L’Hospital’s rules; mathematical history; mean value theorem; logarithmic mean; mathematical statistics; recreational mathematics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C02 C65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-04, Revised 2016-04
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