Jacob Bernoulli
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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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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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