Johann Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician who studied reflection and refraction of light, orthogonal trajectories of families of curves, quadrature of areas by series and the brachistochrone. He was born in Basel on 27 July 1667 and died there on 1 January 1748. A member of the famous Bernoulli family, he was an early champion of the calculus of Leibniz, a solver of the brachistochrone problem and a contributor to the early development of calculus.
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Johann Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician who studied reflection and refraction of light, orthogonal trajectories of families of curves, quadrature of areas by series and the brachistochrone.
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Johann Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician who studied reflection and refraction of light, orthogonal trajectories of families of curves, quadrature of areas by series and the brachistochrone.
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