Jacob Bernoulli
1655 CE–1705 CE · Basel
Jacob Bernoulli (6 January 1655 [O.S. 27 December 1654] – 16 August 1705) was a Swiss mathematician. He sided with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy and was an early proponent of Leibnizian calculus, to which he made numerous contributions. A member of the Bernoulli family, he, along with his brother Johann, 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 he derived the first version of the law of large numbers in his work Ars Conjectandi. Bernoulli's given name is also sometimes given as Jakob (which was his name in German). He was also known as James in English or Jacques in French. When publishing in Latin, as he often did, his name was given as Jacobus Bernoullius. To distinguish him from his relative Jakob II Bernoulli, Bernoulli is sometimes given the generational suffix I, as in Jacob I Bernoulli.
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- Thomas Sydenham· 1624 CE–1689 CE
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini· 1625 CE–1712 CE
- John Ray· 1627 CE–1705 CE
- Robert Boyle· 1627 CE–1691 CE
- Marcello Malpighi· 1628 CE–1694 CE
- Christiaan Huygens· 1629 CE–1695 CE
- Isaac Barrow· 1630 CE–1677 CE
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek· 1632 CE–1723 CE
- Christopher Wren· 1632 CE–1723 CE
- Robert Hooke· 1635 CE–1703 CE
- Jan Swammerdam· 1637 CE–1680 CE
- Nicolas Steno· 1638 CE–1686 CE
- James Gregory· 1638 CE–1675 CE
- Nehemiah Grew· 1641 CE–1712 CE
- Regnier de Graaf· 1641 CE–1673 CE
- Isaac Newton· 1643 CE–1727 CE
- Ole Rømer· 1644 CE–1710 CE
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz· 1646 CE–1716 CE
- John Flamsteed· 1646 CE–1719 CE
- Denis Papin· 1647 CE–1713 CE
- Edmond Halley· 1656 CE–1742 CE
- Georg Ernst Stahl· 1659 CE–1734 CE
- Stephen Gray· 1666 CE–1736 CE
- Herman Boerhaave· 1668 CE–1738 CE
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- Louis XIV· 1638 CE–1715 CE
- Mustafa II· 1664 CE–1703 CE
- Kangxi Emperor· 1654 CE–1722 CE
- Feodor III· 1661 CE–1682 CE
- Ahmed II· 1643 CE–1695 CE
- Mehmed IV· 1642 CE–1693 CE
- Suleiman II· 1642 CE–1691 CE
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- Peter the Great· 1672 CE–1725 CE
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