Jacques Bernoulli

See also: Bernoulli

Jacques or Jakob Bernoulli (December 27th 1654, Basle - August 16th 1705) is a mathematician and physicist Suisse, brother of Jean Bernoulli and uncle of Daniel Bernoulli and Nicolas Bernoulli.

Born with Basle in 1654, it meets Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke at the time of a voyage in England in 1676. After that, it is devoted to the Physique and the Mathématiques. He teaches at the university of Basle starting from 1682, becoming mathematics professor in 1687. He deserved by his work and his discoveries to be named associated with Academy of Science of Paris (1699) and of that with Berlin (1701).

Its correspondence with Gottfried Leibniz the conduit studied the Infinitesimal calculus in collaboration with his/her Jean brother. He was one of the first to be included/understood and to apply differential and integral calculus, suggested by Leibniz, discovered the properties of the numbers known as since Nombres of Bernoulli and gave the solution of problems looked at up to that point like insoluble.

Its major work is:

Ars conjectandi published after its death in Basle in 1713, by its nephew Nicolas Bernoulli (translated into French by Louis-Guillaume-François Vastel, Paris, 1801). It poses there the principles of the calculation of the Probabilités and introduced the Nombres of Bernoulli.

It also left Mémoires , joined together under the title of Jacobi Bernouilli Opera , Geneva, 1744, 2 volumes in-4.

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