Jakob II Bernoulli (17 October 1759, Basel – 3 July 1789, Saint Petersburg), younger brother of Johann III Bernoulli, was a Swiss physicist. Having finished...
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Jean), son of Johann II, astronomer, geographer and mathematician Jakob II Bernoulli (1759–1789; also known as Jacques), son of Johann II, physicist and mathematician...
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Johann II Bernoulli (also known as Jean; 18 May 1710, Basel – 17 July 1790, Basel) was the youngest of the three sons of the Swiss mathematician Johann...
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Jacob Bernoulli (also known as James in English or Jacques in French; 6 January 1655 [O.S. 27 December 1654] – 16 August 1705) was one of the many prominent...
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Nicolaus II Bernoulli (also spelled as Niklaus or Nikolaus; 6 February 1695 in Basel – 31 July 1726 in Saint Petersburg) was a Swiss mathematician as were...
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Johann Bernoulli (also known as Jean in French or John in English; 6 August [O.S. 27 July] 1667 – 1 January 1748) was a Swiss mathematician and was one...
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Daniel Bernoulli FRS (/bɜːrˈnuːli/ bur-NOO-lee; Swiss Standard German: [ˈdaːni̯eːl bɛrˈnʊli]; 8 February [O.S. 29 January] 1700 – 27 March 1782) was a...
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of Basel. In 1704 he graduated from the University of Basel under Jakob Bernoulli and obtained his PhD five years later (in 1709) with a work on probability...
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III Bernoulli (also known as Jean; 4 November 1744 in Basel – 13 July 1807 in Berlin), grandson of Johann Bernoulli and son of Johann II Bernoulli, was...
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Jacob II or Jakob II may refer to: Jacob II of Cilicia Jakob II Bernoulli Jakob von Baden, also known as Jakob II James II (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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Johann and his brother Jakob Bernoulli derived the same solution, but Johann's derivation was incorrect, and he tried to pass off Jakob's solution as his own...
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Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), also known as subacute spongiform encephalopathy or neurocognitive disorder due to prion disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative...
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Elisabeth Bernoulli (9 December 1873 – 22 February 1935) was a Swiss campaigner against alcoholism. Bernoulli was born in Basel, Switzerland, the daughter...
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in his home town of Basle were the mathematicians Daniel Bernoulli and Johann II. Bernoulli. In 1754 Huber was an astronomer at the Royal Greenwich Observatory...
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probability written by Jacob Bernoulli and published in 1713, eight years after his death, by his nephew, Niklaus Bernoulli. The seminal work consolidated...
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eventual development of Einstein's theory of special relativity. In 1682, Jakob Bernoulli formulated the theory that the hardness of the bodies depended on the...
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Stadt Basel. Vol. 3, Basel, 1924, Reprint 1968. August Bernoulli (1885), "Meyer zum Hasen, Jakob", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 21...
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Benno Bernoulli (17 February 1876 – 12 September 1959) was a Swiss architect and city planner. Bernoulli was born in Basel, the son of Theodor Bernoulli, an...
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William Borlase, Cornish naturalist (died 1772) February 6 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1726) May 3 – Henri Pitot, Italian-born French...
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was given by Johann Bernoulli, the younger brother of the deceased Jacob Bernoulli (who had taught Euler's father). Johann Bernoulli and Euler soon got...
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Hermann Hesse (redirect from Maria Bernoulli)
realised he could make a living as a writer, Hesse finally married Maria Bernoulli (of the famous family of mathematicians) in 1904, while her father, who...
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Stochastic process (section Bernoulli process)
probability Ars Conjectandi, originally published in Latin in 1713, Jakob Bernoulli used the phrase "Ars Conjectandi sive Stochastice", which has been...
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mathematicians, such as Gottfried Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and Nicholas I Bernoulli. These acquaintances started Goldbach's interest in mathematics. He briefly...
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university has been home to Erasmus of Rotterdam, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Jacob Burckhardt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Tadeusz Reichstein...
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Buxtorf II (1599–1664), Protestant Christian Hebraist Jacob Bernoulli (1654–1705), mathematician Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748), mathematician Johann Jakob Wettstein...
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Willem 's Gravesande (redirect from William Jakob s'Gravesande)
published in 1711, was praised by the influential Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli. In The Hague, 's Gravesande also helped to establish the Journal littéraire...
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gravitation 1690 - James Bernoulli shows that the cycloid is the solution to the tautochrone problem 1691 - Johann Bernoulli shows that a chain freely...
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Hydrodynamica, Daniel Bernoulli described a fundamental relationship between pressure, velocity, and density, now termed Bernoulli's principle, which provides...
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25 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (died 1776) May 18 – Johann II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1790) June 10 – James Short, Scottish mathematician...
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Jakob Burckhardt was born on 13 July 1903 in Basel. He came from an old Basel family. His ancestors include a brother (Hieronimus) of Jacob Bernoulli...
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