Johann Bernoulli
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 Johann Bernoulli |
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| Born | July 27, 1667 Basel, Switzerland |
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| Died | January 1, 1748 Basel, Switzerland |
| Residence | Switzerland  |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Field | Mathematician |
| Institution | University of Basel |
| Alma Mater | University of Basel |
| Academic Advisor | Jacob Bernoulli |
| Notable Students | Leonhard Euler |
| Known for | Development in calculus Solving catenary problem. |
| Religion | Calvinist |
Johann Bernoulli (Basel, July 27, 1667 - January 1, 1748) was a Swiss mathematician. He was the brother of Jakob Bernoulli, and the father of Daniel Bernoulli (for whom the Bernoulli's principle was named) and Nicolaus II Bernoulli. He is also known as Jean or John Bernoulli. He educated the great mathematician Leonhard Euler in his youth.
Bernoulli was known for being extremely jealous. Because of jealously towards his son Daniel, Johann took all of the ideas of his son's book Hydrodynamica and made his own book, all the while predating it to receive the credit. He was employed by his student, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, whose name is still associated with the solution to 0/0 and ∞/∞ limits (L'Hôpital's rule), which was probably discovered by Bernoulli. After de l'Hôpital's death, Bernoulli claimed to be responsible for most of de l'Hôpital's textbook on calculus.
Bernoulli proposed a fluid energy perpetual motion machine.
[edit] External links
- Entry at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Johann Bernoulli". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Golba, Paul, "Bernoulli, Johan'"
- "Johann Bernoulli"
- Eric W. Weisstein, Bernoulli, Johann (1667-1748) at ScienceWorld.
- C. Truesdell The New Bernoulli Edition Isis, Vol. 49, No. 1. (Mar., 1958), pp. 54-62, discusses the strange agreement between Bernoulli and de l'Hôpital on pages 59-62.
