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Jakob Bernoulli
died 1705
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryJacob Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician. He sided with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy and was an early proponent of Leibnizian calculus, to which he made numerous contributions. A member of the Bernoulli family, he, along with his brother Johann, was one of the founders of the calculus of variations. He also discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e. However, his most important contribution was in the field of probability, where he derived the first version of the law of large numbers in his work Ars Conjectandi.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
January 5, 1655
Basel
Date of death
August 16, 1705
Basel
Citizenship
Switzerland
Occupations & fields
mathematicianphysicistphysicianuniversity teacher
Notable works
Ars ConjectandiBernoulli numberBernoulli distributionlemniscate of BernoulliBernoulli trialBernoulli process
- Field and occupation
- švýcarský matematik a fyzik
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