Mathematician:Daniel Bernoulli

Dutch / Swiss mathematician who worked mostly on fluid dynamics, probability theory and statistics.

Considered by many to be the first mathematical physicist.

Son of and the brother of  and.

Famously suffered from the jealousy and bad temper of his father who, among other unpleasantnesses, tried to steal his Hydrodynamica and pass it off as his own, naming it Hydraulica.

Nationality
Dutch / Swiss

History

 * Born: 8 Feb 1700, Groningen, Netherlands
 * Died: 17 March 1782, Basel, Switzerland

Theorems and Definitions

 * Euler-Bernoulli Beam Equation (with )
 * Bernoulli's Principle
 * Bernoulli's Hanging Chain Problem

Books and Papers

 * 1724: Exercitationes (Mathematical Exercises) (with )
 * 1738: Hydrodynamica
 * 1738: Specimen theoriae novae de mensura sortis (Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk)

Also see

 * The Bernoulli Family


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