Nicolaus I Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician of the Bernoulli family, born in Basel on 20 October 1687 and dead there on 29 November 1759. The son of a painter and alderman of Basel, he graduated from the University of Basel in 1704 under his uncle Jakob Bernoulli and took his doctorate in 1709 with a thesis on the use of the art of conjecturing in law, a work on probability theory. In 1716 he took the Galileo chair at the University of Padua, where he worked on differential equations and geometry, and in 1722 he returned to Basel as professor of logic. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1714. His most important contributions survive in his letters, above all those to Pierre Rémond de Montmort, in which he introduced the St. Petersburg paradox, and he also corresponded with Leibniz and Euler.
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Nicolaus Bernoulli (also spelled Nicolas or Nikolas; 20 October [O.S. 10 October] 1687 in Basel – 29 November 1759 in Basel) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.
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Nicolaus Bernoulli (also spelled Nicolas or Nikolas; 20 October [O.S. 10 October] 1687 in Basel, 29 November 1759 in Basel) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.
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Nicolaus Bernoulli (also spelled Nicolas or Nikolas; 20 October [O.S. 10 October] 1687 in Basel, 29 November 1759 in Basel) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.
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He was the son of Nicolaus Bernoulli, painter and Alderman of Basel.
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In 1704 he graduated from the University of Basel under Jakob Bernoulli and obtained his PhD five years later (in 1709) with a work on probability theory in law.
In Branch: Differential Equations, Lead, field of work
In 1716 he obtained the Galileo-chair at the University of Padua, where he worked on differential equations and geometry.
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In 1716 he obtained the Galileo-chair at the University of Padua, where he worked on differential equations and geometry.
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In 1704 he graduated from the University of Basel under Jakob Bernoulli and obtained his PhD five years later (in 1709) with a work on probability theory in law.
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