Jean Bernoulli
See also: Bernoulli
Jean Bernoulli , Johann Bernoulli , (July 27th 1667 - January 1st 1748) is a mathematician and physicist Suisse, brother of Jacques Bernoulli and the father of Daniel and Nicolas.
He professed mathematics with Groningue (1695), then with Basle, after the death of Jacques (1705), and became associated with the Academies of Paris, of London, Berlin and Saint-Pétersbourg. Formed by his brother Jacques Bernoulli, he had a long time worked in.liaison.with him to develop the consequences of new the Infinitesimal calculus invented by Gottfried Leibniz; but it is established then between them, at the time of the solution some problems, a competition which degenerated into enmity.
It also contributed in many sectors to the mathematical including the problem of a particle moving in a field of gravity. It found the equation of the Chaînette in 1690 and developed exponential calculation in 1691. It had also glory to form Leonhard Euler.
It came to Paris in 1690, and bound with the most distinguished scientists, particularly with Guillaume François Antoine, marquis of the Hospital. He discovered the exponential Calcul. Jean Bernoulli became member of the Royal Society on February 1st 1712.
He composed:
It is necessary to join to it its Commercium philosophicum and mathematicum with Leibnitz, 2 volumes in-4, Lausanne, 1745.
See too
- Family Bernoulli
- Mathematical in Europe at the XVIIe century
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