Jakob Bernoulli

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Jakob Bernoulli

Johann Bernoulli and Jakob Bernoulli working on mathematical problems.

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Born	January 6, 1655 • Basel • Switzerland
Died	August 16, 1705 (aged 50) • Basel • Switzerland
Notable Works	“Ars Conjectandi”
House / Dynasty	Bernoulli family
Notable Family Members	brother Johann Bernoulli
Subjects Of Study	calculus of variations

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Johann Bernoulli, oil painting by Johann Jakob Meyer, 1720; in a private collection

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Swiss mathematician

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Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire

French mathematician

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Constantin Carathéodory

Greek-German mathematician

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American mathematician

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Richard Courant

American mathematician

Oskar Bolza

German mathematician

Leonhard Euler

Leonhard Euler

Swiss mathematician

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.

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Swiss logician and mathematician

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Swiss mathematician

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Swiss mathematician

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