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  1. physics. The Bernoulli family ( / bɜːrˈnuːli / bur-NOO-lee, German: [bɛʁˈnʊli], [a] Swiss Standard German: [bɛrˈnʊli]) of Basel was a patrician family, notable for having produced eight mathematically gifted academics who, among them, contributed substantially to the development of mathematics and physics during the early modern period .

  2. Jakob Bernoulli (born January 6, 1655 [December 27, 1654, Old Style], Basel, Switzerland—died August 16, 1705, Basel) was the first of the Bernoulli family of Swiss mathematicians. He introduced the first principles of the calculus of variation. Bernoulli numbers, a concept that he developed, were named for him.

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  4. BERNOULLI BROTHERS – THE MATH FAMILY. Jacob (1654-1705) and Johann Bernoulli (1667-1748) Unusually in the history of mathematics, a single family, the Bernoulli’s, produced half a dozen outstanding mathematicians over a couple of generations at the end of the 17th and start of the 18th Century. The Bernoulli family was a prosperous family ...

  5. May 11, 2018 · Swiss Mathematicians. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Bernoulli family was one of the world's most outstanding mathematical families. The members of the family who made the most significant contributions were two brothers, Jakob (1654 – 1705) and Johann (1667 – 1748), and Johann's son, Daniel (1700 – 1782).

  6. Feb 8, 2012 · Daniel Bernoulli was the son of Johann Bernoulli. He was born in Groningen while his father held the chair of mathematics there. His older brother was Nicolaus ( II) Bernoulli and his uncle was Jacob Bernoulli so he was born into a family of leading mathematicians but also into a family where there was unfortunate rivalry, jealousy and bitterness.

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