Can you imagine how rich some mathematicians would have become if they could have patented mathematical discoveries. I'm thinking Newton or Leibniz would be the richest. Any others?
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Probably 99.99% would go to lawyers. Can you imagine two lawyers arguing for the descendants of Euler and Lagrange, going on and on about the Euler-Lagrange equation and who should get the credit for it.
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Didn't L'hopital (of the rule) pay Euler for the rights to his namesakes law?
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I think it was Bernoulli actually who came up with the L'Hopital's rule
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Euler would still be filing patents
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