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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Didn't L'hopital (of the rule) pay Euler for the rights to his namesakes law?
I think it was Bernoulli actually who came up with the L'Hopital's rule
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So how'd he end up in L'Hopital
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I cant remember.. I read it in my calc textbook (Briggs and Cochran) in one of the footnotes
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When one isn't sure, it's statistically prudent to guess the Bernoulli family.
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Yes you are right, one of them, all the Swiss of the time were probably at it.
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