Nicolaus II Bernoulli
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Nicolaus II Bernoulli, a.k.a. Niklaus Bernoulli, Nikolaus Bernoulli, (February 6, 1695, Basel, Switzerland – July 31, 1726, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Swiss mathematician, as were his father Johann and one of his brothers, Daniel. With the latter, he discussed the St. Petersburg paradox.
Nicolaus worked mostly on curves, differential equations, and probability. He was a contemporary of Leonhard Euler.
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Nicolaus II Bernoulli". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Eric W. Weisstein, Bernoulli, Nicholas (1695-1726) at ScienceWorld.
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