>>12334921Happens constantly, it can happen retroactively like in the case of DNA w/Franklin being unfairly credited over Pauling and Wilkins. There are no means for combating it other than bitter decades long disputes that often do not resolve until the death of accusing party and the alleged thief. Arnold writes about many instances where Russian mathematicians excelled the progress of their west euro contemporaries but for political reasons are to this day, relatively speaking, simply unacknowledged in the literature. You have to look past such things if you want to be productive. Green was largely ignored until after his death yet he helped found mathematical physics.
>>12335641L’hopital didn’t invent anything worth knowing that others were not already working on. He was a popularizer of analysis.
