The Bernoulli Family
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Science
- Subcategories: Mathematics, Mathematicians, Scientists, Physics, Physicists
- Curriculum: 18th Century European History, 17th Century European History
Article abstract: The Bernoulli family contributed to the flowering of mathematical analysis in the eighteenth century which applied advanced mathematical techniques to problems arising in physics, technology, medicine, and the emerging field of probability theory. Members of the family dominated Continental mathematics from the later seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries.
Early Lives
Jakob I, Johann I, and Daniel Bernoulli are the most important members of the Bernoulli dynasty, but at least five others went on to achieve recognition from their...
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