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The rule your professor is teaching right now is named after a man who did not invent it. He was rich, so he paid the real genius to stay quiet and let him take the credit.
It is called L'Hopital's Rule. And L'Hopital did not discover it.
Back in the 1690s, there was a rich French nobleman named the Marquis de L'Hopital. He loved math but was not a great mathematician. So he found someone who was: a young, broke Swiss genius named Johann Bernoulli.
L'Hopital made him an offer. He would pay Bernoulli a yearly salary, real money that Bernoulli badly needed. In return, Bernoulli had to send L'Hopital all of his new discoveries, let him use them however he wanted, and tell no one else.
Bernoulli agreed. He needed the cash.
1 of the things Bernoulli mailed him was a clever trick for solving impossible-looking limits, the 0/0 problem. L'Hopital put it in his 1696 book, the first calculus textbook ever written, with his own name on the cover. The world called it L'Hopital's Rule.
Bernoulli, the real inventor, spent the rest of his life saying he had been robbed. Almost nobody believed him.
The truth only came out in 1922, more than 200 years later, when his original letters were finally found.
Every student on Earth still calls it L'Hopital's Rule. The man who actually discovered it got a paycheck and a footnote.
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