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==Mathematics== * [[Guillaume de l'Hôpital]] publishes ''[[Analyse des Infiniment Petits pour l'Intelligence des Lignes Courbes]]'', the first textbook on [[differential calculus]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/De_L'Hopital.html|title=Guillaume François Antoine Marquis de L'Hôpital|first1=J. J.|last1=O'Connor|last2=Robertson|first2=E. F.|work=[[MacTutor History of Mathematics archive]]|publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, [[University of St Andrews]]|accessdate=2011-06-03 |date=December 2008}}</ref> including a statement of [[L'Hôpital's rule|his rule]] for the computation of certain [[limit (mathematics)|limit]]s. * [[Jakob Bernoulli]] and [[Johann Bernoulli]] solve the [[brachistochrone curve]] problem, the first result in the [[calculus of variations]].
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