Jakob Bernoulli: Facts & Related Content

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Born January 6, 1655 • BaselSwitzerland
Died August 16, 1705 (aged 50) • BaselSwitzerland
Notable Works “Ars Conjectandi”
House / Dynasty Bernoulli family
Notable Family Members brother Johann Bernoulli
Subjects Of Study calculus of variations

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Johann Bernoulli, oil painting by Johann Jakob Meyer, 1720; in a private collection
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Carathéodory, Constantin
Constantin Carathéodory
Greek-German mathematician
Gilbert Ames Bliss
American mathematician
Courant, Richard
Richard Courant
American mathematician
Oskar Bolza
German mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Daniel Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Steiner surface. It was during a trip to Rome in 1844 that Jakob Steiner first discovered the fourth-degree surface that today bears his name; for this reason it is sometimes referred to as the Roman surface. Each of its tangent planes has the characteristic property that it intersects the surface in a pair of conics. The Steiner surface also contains three double lines that meet one another in a triple point. Steiner never published these and other findings concerning the surface. A colleague, Karl Weierstrass, first published a paper on the surface and Steiner's results in 1863, the year of Steiner's death.
Jakob Steiner
Swiss mathematician
Paul Isaak Bernays
Swiss logician and mathematician
Joost Bürgi
Swiss mathematician
Cajori
Florian Cajori
American mathematician
Johann Jakob Balmer
Swiss mathematician
Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Consider how Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity led to a better understanding of planetary motion
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher

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