Jacob Bernoulli

1654 - 1705

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship:  Switzerland
languages spoken, written or signed:  LatinFrenchHebrewEnglishGermanSwiss German
educated at:  University of Basel
influenced by:  Nicolas Malebranche

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 mathematicians in the Swiss Bernoulli family. He sided with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy and was an early proponent of Leibnizian calculus, which he made numerous contributions to; along with his brother Johann, he 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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