Jacob (Jacques) Bernoulli

1654 - 1705

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Jacob Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician who was the first to use the term integral. He studied the catenary, the curve of a suspended string. He was an early user of polar coordinates and discovered the isochrone.
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List of References (17 books/articles)

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  1. Bernoulli family tree
  2. Bernoulli's grave

Honours awarded to Jacob Bernoulli
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Lunar featuresCrater Bernoulli
Paris street namesRue Bernoulli (8th Arrondissement) is named for the Bernoulli family.

Other Web sites
  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
  2. Astroseti (A Spanish translation of this biography)
  3. The Galileo Project
  4. H Kohler
  5. Karl Dilcher (A bibliography of books and articles about Bernoulli numbers)
  1. Kevin Brown (The brachistochrone problem)
  2. Kevin Brown (Bernoulli numbers)
  3. The Bernoulli Society
  4. Mathematical Genealogy Project
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