Re: [HM] L'Hopital, Pythagoras, Ptolemy and Hilbert

Subject: Re: [HM] L'Hopital, Pythagoras, Ptolemy and Hilbert
From: John Conway (conway@math.Princeton.EDU)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 19:02:03 EST

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Julio Gonzalez Cabillon wrote:

> But, John, the story is quite different. L'Hospital did NOT pay
> Bernoulli _for the right to publish_ anything at all, and so
> there was not such an agreement.
>

    Tell me more, Julio! I wonder where I got this story from?

    John Conway

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