ProofWiki:Mathematicians/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 Johann Bernoulli and the brother of Nicolaus II Bernoulli and Johann II Bernoulli.

Famously suffered from the jealousy and bad temper of his father Johann Bernoulli 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

• Euler-Bernoulli Beam Equation (with Leonhard Paul Euler)
• Bernoulli's Principle

Books and Papers

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

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Daniel Bernoulli": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• George F. Simmons: Differential Equations (1972): $\S 6$