Jacob Bernoulli
Jacob Bernoulli 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.
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- Born in
- Basel
- Educated at
- University of Basel
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Nicolas Malebranche🎓 Peter Werenfels
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Nicolaus I Bernoulli📖 Johann Bernoulli
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1654
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