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Jacob Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician who lived from 1655 to 1705 and made important contributions to early calculus and probability theory. His work helped establish foundational mathematical concepts that influenced the development of modern mathematics and scientific thinking.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jakob
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Basel
- Place of death
- Basel
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Basel
- Employer
- University of Basel
- Languages spoken
- Swiss German
- Notable work
- Bernoulli's inequality
- Family
- Bernoulli
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Student of
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Doctoral student
- Nicolaus I Bernoulli
- Field of work
- mathematical analysis
- Image
- Jakob Bernoulli.jpg
- Work location
- Basel
- Residence
- Switzerland
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- date of birth
- 1654-12-27
- date of death
- 1705-08-16
- name in native language
- Jakob Bernoulli
- member of
- French Academy of Sciences
- influenced by
- Nicolas Malebranche
- different from
- Jakob II Bernoulli
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Encyclopedic overview
Jacob Bernoulli (also known as James in English or Jacques in French; 6 January 1655 [O.S. 27 December 1654] – 16 August 1705) was a Swiss mathematician. He sided with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy and was an early proponent of Leibnizian calculus, to which he made numerous contributions. A member of the Bernoulli family, he, along with his brother Johann, 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.
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