Jakob Bernoulli

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Swiss mathematician human mathematician

Jakob Bernoulli was a pioneering Swiss mathematician of the late 17th century, renowned for his foundational work in calculus and probability theory, including the early formulation of the law of large numbers.

Aliases (1)

Jacob Bernoulli ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Swiss mathematician → human → mathematician →
authorOf	Ars Conjectandi →
countryOfCitizenship	Swiss Confederacy → Switzerland →
dateOfBirth	1654-01-06 →
dateOfDeath	1705-08-16 →
educatedAt	University of Basel →
employer	University of Basel →
era	17th century → early modern period →
familyName	Bernoulli →
fieldOfWork	analysis → calculus → combinatorics → mathematics → number theory → probability theory →
givenName	Jakob →
influenced	Abraham de Moivre → Johann Bernoulli → Leonhard Euler → Pierre-Simon Laplace →
influencedBy	Blaise Pascal → Christiaan Huygens → René Descartes →
knownFor	Bernoulli numbers → Bernoulli trials → early work in calculus → foundational work in probability theory → law of large numbers →
languageOfWorkOrName	German → Latin →
memberOf	Bernoulli family →
notableConcept	Bernoulli numbers → Bernoulli trials → law of large numbers →
notableWork	Ars Conjectandi →
occupation	professor →
placeOfBirth	Basel → Swiss Confederacy →
placeOfDeath	Basel → Swiss Confederacy →
positionHeld	professor of mathematics at the University of Basel →
sibling	Johann Bernoulli → Nicolaus Bernoulli →
studied	philosophy → theology →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
De ratiociniis in ludo aleae →	influenced
Johann Bernoulli ("Jacob Bernoulli") →	sibling