Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (born 1654)

Jacob Bernoulli

Swiss mathematician (1655–1705)

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…