In 1696, Guillaume de l'Hôpital published "Analysis of the Infinitely Small to Understand Curved Lines" which included a mathematical discovery he called L'Hôpital's Rule. The problem? Guillame was a mediocre mathematician at best, and hired Johann Bernoulli to tutor him, in order for him to be able to devise a mathematical theorem. Eventually Guillame got tired of waiting for inspiration to strike, and purchased one of Johann's mathematically discoveries, and named it L'Hôpital's Rule after himself.
So here's your moral dilemma: if you invented something and someone offered to pay you an outrageously large sum of money for it, with the caveat that they would claim credit for the invention and that you would never be able to mention to anybody that you had anything to do with the invention, would you take the deal? Or would you keep credit for your invention, but remain at your current economic status forever?
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I know your answer to this
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