Jacob Bernoulli
Jacob Bernoulli
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a prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family, an early proponent of Leibnizian calculus and sided with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy.
Born
6 January 1655 Basel, Switzerland
Died
16 August 1705 (aged 50) Basel, Switzerland
Known for
Bernoulli differential equation Bernoulli numbers Bernoulli's formula Bernoulli polynomials Bernoulli map Bernoulli trial Bernoulli process Bernoulli scheme Bernoulli operator Hidden Bernoulli model Bernoulli
Fields
Mathematics, mechanics
Institutions
University of Basel
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Switzerland
Doctoral advisor
Peter Werenfels (1676 thesis advisor)
Doctoral students
Jacob Hermann Nicolaus I Bernoulli
Education
University of Basel (D.Th., 1676; Dr. phil. hab., 1684)
era
1600-1800
Influences
Nicolas Malebranche
Other academic advisors
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (epistolary correspondent)
Other notable students
Johann Bernoulli
Theses
Primi et Secundi Adami Collatio (1676) Solutionem tergemini problematis arithmetici, geometrici et astronomici (Solutions to a triple problem in arithmetics, geometry and astronomy) (1684)