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Born August 6, 1667 • Basel • Switzerland
Died January 1, 1748 (aged 80) • Basel • Switzerland
House / Dynasty Bernoulli family
Notable Family Members son Daniel Bernoulli • brother Jakob Bernoulli
Subjects Of Study calculus • calculus of variations

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Johann Bernoulli, oil painting by Johann Jakob Meyer, 1720; in a private collection
Johann Bernoulli and Jakob Bernoulli working on mathematical problems.
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Carathéodory, Constantin
Constantin Carathéodory
Greek-German mathematician
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Gilbert Ames Bliss
American mathematician
Engraved portrait of Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler in profile, wearing a dark coat and ruffled white shirt, from the 1740s.
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Jakob Bernoulli
Jakob Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
John Wallis, oil painting after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Wallis
English mathematician
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
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Seki Takakazu
Japanese mathematician
Colin Maclaurin, engraving by S. Freeman; in the British Museum.
Colin Maclaurin
Scottish mathematician
Brook Taylor, detail of a gouache miniature by Joseph Goupy; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Brook Taylor
British mathematician
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Vito Volterra
Italian mathematician
Courant, Richard
Richard Courant
American mathematician
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Oskar Bolza
German mathematician
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Daniel Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Steiner surface. It was during a trip to Rome in 1844 that Jakob Steiner first discovered the fourth-degree surface that today bears his name; for this reason it is sometimes referred to as the Roman surface. Each of its tangent planes has the characteristic property that it intersects the surface in a pair of conics. The Steiner surface also contains three double lines that meet one another in a triple point. Steiner never published these and other findings concerning the surface. A colleague, Karl Weierstrass, first published a paper on the surface and Steiner's results in 1863, the year of Steiner's death.
Jakob Steiner
Swiss mathematician
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Paul Isaak Bernays
Swiss logician and mathematician
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Joost Bürgi
Swiss mathematician
Cajori
Florian Cajori
American mathematician
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Johann Jakob Balmer
Swiss mathematician

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