This reminds me of something a professor told me in my first Calculus course that the famous L'Hospital's rule, named after the French mathematician Guillaume de l'Hôpital, was actually discovered and proved by Bernoulli. The saying is that l'Hospital bought the rights to Bernoulli's mathematical discovery in order to publish it in his book Analyse des Infiniment Petits pour l'Intelligence des Lignes Courbes[1]
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This reminds me of something a professor told me in my first Calculus course that the famous L'Hospital's rule, named after the French mathematician Guillaume de l'Hôpital, was actually discovered and proved by Bernoulli. The saying is that l'Hospital bought the rights to Bernoulli's mathematical discovery in order to publish it in his book Analyse des Infiniment Petits pour l'Intelligence des Lignes Courbes[1]
[1] http://www.stewartcalculus.com/data/ESSENTIAL%20CALCULUS%20E...