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L'Hôpital was the mathematician who created the homonymous rule that uses derivatives to evaluate limits with indeterminations.

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Explanation

The statement is false. L'Hôpital was not the mathematician who created the homonymous rule that uses derivatives to evaluate limits with indeterminations. The rule is actually named after the Swiss mathematician Guillaume de l'Hôpital, who published a book in 1696 that included this rule. The rule, commonly known as L'Hôpital's rule, states that if the limit of a ratio of functions in an indeterminate form (such as 0/0 or ∞/∞), then its value can be determined by taking the derivatives of the numerator and denominator and evaluating the limit of their ratio instead.