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Jacob Bernoulli

1654 - 1705

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Bernoulli is the 18th most popular mathematician (up from 80th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 41st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Mathematician.

Jacob Bernoulli is most famous for his work on probability and the mathematics of games of chance.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jacob Bernoulli ranks 18 out of 1,004. Before him are Bernhard Riemann, Hypatia, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Al-Biruni, Pierre de Fermat, and Bertrand Russell. After him are Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Henri Poincaré, Pierre-Simon Laplace, David Hilbert, Joseph Fourier, and Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1654, Jacob Bernoulli ranks 1. After him are Kangxi Emperor, Emperor Reigen, Pierre Varignon, Pedro Calungsod, Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme, Agostino Steffani, Constantin Brâncoveanu, Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, and Danylo Apostol. Among people deceased in 1705, Jacob Bernoulli ranks 1. After him are Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, Emeric Thököly, Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Luca Giordano, Ninon de l'Enclos, Philipp Spener, Catherine of Braganza, John Ray, George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Madame d'Aulnoy, and Pierre Beauchamp.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jacob Bernoulli ranks 9 out of 1,015. Before him are Le Corbusier (1887), Carl Jung (1875), Paracelsus (1493), Henry Dunant (1828), Jean Piaget (1896), and Ferdinand de Saussure (1857). After him are Huldrych Zwingli (1484), Sepp Blatter (1936), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), Paul Klee (1879), Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), and Charles Albert Gobat (1843).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Jacob Bernoulli ranks 2. Before him are Leonhard Euler (1707). After him are Johann Bernoulli (1667), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Jost Bürgi (1552), Jakob Steiner (1796), Paul Guldin (1577), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750), and Johann II Bernoulli (1710).

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