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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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    3 ways to prove that the curve is a cubic parabola) – Letter from Johan Bernoulli to Pierre Varignon dated 27 Jul 1697. Assume AMmB is the part of the...
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    Johan de Witt (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjoːɦɑn də ˈʋɪt]; 24 September 1625 – 20 August 1672), Lord of Zuid- en Noord-Linschoten, Snelrewaard, Hekendorp en...
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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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    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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    Invites Euler to Return to St. Petersburg." in Leonhard Euler and the Bernoullis (AK Peters/CRC Press, 2009) pp. 276–283. Robert Zaretsky, Catherine and...
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    Lexell, such a paper could only be written by D'Alambert or me". Daniel Bernoulli also praised his work, writing in a letter to Johann Euler "I like Lexell's...
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  • Hanserl, Hännschen, Hennes, Hännes, Hänneschen, Henning, Henner, Honsa, Johan, Johann, Jan, Jannes, Jo, Joha, Hanselmann, Hansje.[citation needed] Pet...
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    distribution is the conjugate prior probability distribution for the Bernoulli, binomial, negative binomial, and geometric distributions. The formulation...
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  • (1954). Bernoulli, Daniel; letter of 4 July 1731 to Nicolas Bernoulli (Excerpted in PDF. Archived 2008-09-09 at the Wayback Machine). Bernoulli, Nicolas;...
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  • The problem is named after Basel, hometown of Euler as well as of the Bernoulli family who unsuccessfully attacked the problem. The Basel problem asks...
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  • Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656–1723), Austrian architect Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748), Swiss mathematician Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803–1877), early...
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    spend his off-season with his friends. Italian formula race car Francesco Bernoulli challenges Lightning to participate in the World Grand Prix, an international...
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    infinite series and what some mathematicians (including l'Hôpital and Bernoulli) regarded as infinitely small quantities, but infinity continued to be...
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    Johannes Kepler (redirect from Johan Kepler)
    eventually the imperial mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II and his two successors Matthias and Ferdinand II. He also taught mathematics in Linz, and was an adviser...
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    property, the inversion formula, involves the Hurwitz zeta function or the Bernoulli polynomials and is found under relationship to other functions below....
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    Neptune Great Britain, a compromise Lexell suggested as well. Daniel Bernoulli, suggested Hypercronius and Transaturnis. Georg Lichtenberg from Göttingen...
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  • (1954). Bernoulli, Daniel; letter of 4 July 1731 to Nicolas Bernoulli (excerpted in PDF Archived 9 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine). Bernoulli, Nicolas;...
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    other coordinate systems. In the journal Acta Eruditorum (1691), Jacob Bernoulli used a system with a point on a line, called the pole and polar axis respectively...
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  • particles, which made Newtonian calculations possible. Although Daniel Bernoulli and Leonhard Euler had laid the foundation of modern fluid dynamics a...
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    on probability by Jacob Bernoulli, is published eight years after his death, by his nephew, Niklaus Bernoulli. Basil Matthew II becomes Syriac Orthodox...
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    English politician (d. 1782) May 18 Johann II Bernoulli, youngest of the three sons of Johann Bernoulli (d. 1790) Vere Poulett, 3rd Earl Poulett (d....
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    Maupertuis, based on his exposition of Newton (with the help of his mentor Johan Bernoulli) predicted that the Earth should be oblate, while his rival Jacques...
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  • Ruffer's Death". The Times. 14 May 1918. p. 4. Conway p209-10 "Castel, Marc: Bernoulli at Sous-marins Français 1863 – pagesperso-orange.fr". Bradley, Amanda...
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  • 2013-06-05. English translation by Catriona and David Lischka. Jensen, Johan Ludwig William Valdemar (1895), "Note numéro 245. Deuxième réponse. Remarques...
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    philologist and critic Albert Schultens (1686–1750), philologist Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782), mathematician and physicist Johannes Antiquus (1702–1750)...
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    Colégio Oficina Colégio Anchieta Federal Institute of Bahia (IFBA) Colégio Bernoulli Cândido Portinari Academy Colégio Antônio Vieira Colégio Módulo Military...
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    Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné, French aristocrat (b. 1646) August 16 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1654) August 28 Ludvig Stoud, Danish-Norwegian...
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  • German-American printer and publisher (d. 1757) February 6 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Russian mathematician (d. 1726) February 10 – Armand Jules de Rohan-Guéméné...
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