> The joke goes that everything in math is named after the second person to discover it after Euler This was one of the stories on my calculus book in college

> The joke goes that everything in math is named after the second person to discover it after Euler This was one of the stories on my calculus book in college I loved reading the brief explanations about the history of the different formulas and discoveries In fact, reading those stories earned me a free “extra A” in class for remembering Rolle’s theorem. I only remembered it because Rolle’s story really caught my attention. After coming up with his theorem, he became a big critic of calculus, even though his theorem is one of its crucial building blocks