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Born August 6, 1667 • Basel • Switzerland
Died January 1, 1748 (aged 80) • Basel • Switzerland
House / Dynasty Bernoulli family
Notable Family Members son Daniel Bernoulli • brother Jakob Bernoulli
Subjects Of Study calculus • calculus of variations

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Johann Bernoulli, oil painting by Johann Jakob Meyer, 1720; in a private collection
Johann Bernoulli and Jakob Bernoulli working on mathematical problems.
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Carathéodory, Constantin
Constantin Carathéodory
Greek-German mathematician
Gilbert Ames Bliss
American mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Jakob Bernoulli
Jakob Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, comte de l’Empire
French mathematician
John Wallis, oil painting after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Wallis
English mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
Seki Takakazu
Japanese mathematician
Colin Maclaurin, engraving by S. Freeman; in the British Museum.
Colin Maclaurin
Scottish mathematician
Brook Taylor, detail of a gouache miniature by Joseph Goupy; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Brook Taylor
British mathematician
Vito Volterra
Italian mathematician
Courant, Richard
Richard Courant
American mathematician
Oskar Bolza
German mathematician
Daniel Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Steiner surface. It was during a trip to Rome in 1844 that Jakob Steiner first discovered the fourth-degree surface that today bears his name; for this reason it is sometimes referred to as the Roman surface. Each of its tangent planes has the characteristic property that it intersects the surface in a pair of conics. The Steiner surface also contains three double lines that meet one another in a triple point. Steiner never published these and other findings concerning the surface. A colleague, Karl Weierstrass, first published a paper on the surface and Steiner's results in 1863, the year of Steiner's death.
Jakob Steiner
Swiss mathematician
Paul Isaak Bernays
Swiss logician and mathematician
Joost Bürgi
Swiss mathematician
Cajori
Florian Cajori
American mathematician
Johann Jakob Balmer
Swiss mathematician

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