Jacob Bernoulli
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Jacob Bernoulli
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Jacob Bernoulli was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Swiss Bernoulli family. He sided with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy and was an early proponent of Leibnizian calculus, which he made numerous contributions to; along with his brother Johann, he was one of the founders of the calculus of variations. He also discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e. However, his most important contribution was in the field of probability, where
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Swiss mathematician (1655–1705)
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2002-07-26T08:05:34Z
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2024-06-20T02:51:10Z
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