Nicolaus I Bernoulli
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1687 – 1759
Who was Nicolaus I Bernoulli?
Nicolaus Bernoulli, was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.
He was the son of Nicolaus Bernoulli, painter and Alderman of Basel. In 1704 he graduated at the University of Basel under Jakob Bernoulli and obtained his PhD five years later with a work on probability theory in law. 1716 he obtained the Galileo-chair at the University of Padua, where he worked on differential equations and geometry. In 1722 he returned to Switzerland and obtained a chair in Logics at the University of Basel.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in March, 1714.
His most important contributions can be found in his letters, in particular to Pierre Rémond de Montmort. In these letters, he introduced in particular the St. Petersburg Paradox. He also communicated with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Leonhard Euler.
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- Born
- Oct 21, 1687
Basel - Nationality
- Switzerland
- Profession
- Education
- University of Basel
- Died
- Nov 29, 1759
Basel
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on July 23, 2013
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