Nicolaus Bernoulli

Nicolaus Bernoulli

Born: 6 Feb 1695 in Basel, Switzerland
Died: 31 July 1726 in Basel, Switzerland

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Nicolaus Bernoulli was the favourite of three sons of Johann Bernoulli. He worked on curves, differential equations and probability. He died only 8 months after taking up an appointment in St Petersburg.

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References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. M Huerlimann (ed.), Die Mathematikerfamilie Bernoulli, Grosse Schweizer Zurich (1942), 112-119.
  3. H Bernhard, The Bernoulli family, in H Wussing and W Arnold, Biographien bedeutender Mathematiker (Berlin, 1983). 
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