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Definition of James Bernoulli
1. Noun. Swiss mathematician (1654-1705).
Lexicographical Neighbors of James Bernoulli
Literary usage of James Bernoulli
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability from the Time of Pascal to by Isaac Todhunter (1865)
"James Bernoulli. 92. WE now propose to give an account of the Ars Conjec- ...
James Bernoulli is the first member of the celebrated family of this name who ..."
2. The New Calendar of Great Men: Biographies of the 558 Worthies of All Ages by Frederic Harrison (1892)
"The importance of the subject lay, as James Bernoulli explains in his papers treating
... James Bernoulli died in Basle, 16th August 1705, after an illness ..."
3. The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Carl Immanuel Gerhardt (1920)
"Full translation of the intended postscript to the letter to James Bernoulli,
dated April, 1703, from Berlin. ..."
4. Biography: Or, Third Division of "The English Encyclopedia" edited by Charles Knight (1868)
"The integral calculus was first inquired into by James Bernoulli, in two essays
published in 1691. His future labours were, in a great measure, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"James Bernoulli cannot be strictly called an independent discoverer ; but, from
his extensive and ... James Bernoulli wrote elegant verses in Latin, German, ..."
6. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"In 1687, James Bernoulli succeeded to the professorship of mathematics at Basil;
a trust which he ... James Bernoulli had an excellent genius for invention, ..."
7. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1835)
"James Bernoulli replied, that if in three minutes he had solved the whole mystery,
surely six minutes more would not much diminish the number of his new ..."
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