The Bernoullis are a family of traders and scholars from Basel, Switzerland. The founder of the family, Leon Bernoulli, immigrated to Basel from Antwerp, Belgium in the 16th century. Location within Switzerland Basel (British English traditionally: Basle and more recently Basel , German: Basel , French: Bâle , Italian: Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (166,563 inhabitants (2004); 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second-largest... The Cathedral of our Lady (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp) in the Handschoenmarkt, in the old quarter of Antwerp is the largest cathedral in the Low Countries and home to a number of triptychs by Belgian Baroque painter Rubens. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ...

Many notable artists and scientists have been Bernoullis, in particular a number of famous mathematicians in the 18th century: This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

• Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782)
• Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695–1726), his elder brother
• Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748), father of Daniel and Nicolaus II
• Jakob Bernoulli (also James or Jacques) (1654–1705), brother of Johann
• Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687–1759), nephew of Jakob and Johann.

Bernard Bernoulli is also a fictional character in the video games Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle. Daniel Bernoulli Daniel Bernoulli (Groningen, February 9, 1700 – Basel, March 17, 1782) was a Dutch-born mathematician who spent much of his life in Basel, Switzerland. ... Nicolaus II Bernoulli (February 6, 1695, Basel, Switzerland – July 31, 1726, Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Swiss mathematician. ... Johann Bernoulli Johann Bernoulli (Basel, July 27, 1667 - January 1, 1748) was a Swiss mathematician. ... Jakob Bernoulli. ... Nicolaus I Bernoulli (21 October 1687, Basel, Switzerland – 29 November 1759, Basel) was a Swiss mathematician. ... Screenshot Maniac Mansion (C64) Maniac Mansion is a graphical adventure game originally released in 1987, published by LucasArts. ... Maniac Mansion is a graphical adventure game originally released in 1987 by Lucasfilm Games (now known as LucasArts). ... Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle (DoTT) is a graphical adventure game, originally released in 1993, and published by LucasArts. ...

See also:

• Bernoulli Box
• Bernoulli distribution
• Bernoulli number
• Bernoulli polynomials
• Bernoulli trial
• Bernoulli's principle
• Bernoulli's equation
• Bernoulli differential equation

References: 230 MB Bernoulli disk The Bernoulli Box (or simply Bernoulli) is a high capacity removable disk storage system that was Iomega Corporations first popular product (1983). ... In probability theory and statistics, the Bernoulli distribution, named after Swiss scientist James Bernoulli, is a discrete probability distribution, which takes value 1 with success probability and value 0 with failure probability . ... In mathematics, the Bernoulli numbers Bn were first discovered in connection with the closed forms of the sums for various fixed values of n. ... In mathematics, the Bernoulli polynomials occur in the study of many special functions and in particular the Riemann zeta function and the Hurwitz zeta function. ... In the theory of probability and statistics, a Bernoulli trial is an experiment whose outcome is random and can be either of two possible outcomes, called success and failure. ... Bernoullis principle states that in fluid flow, an increase in velocity occurs simultaneously with decrease in pressure. ... In fluid dynamics, Bernoullis equation, derived by Daniel Bernoulli, describes the behavior of a fluid moving along a streamline. ... In mathematics, an ordinary differential equation of the form is called a Bernoulli differential equation or often just Bernoulli equation. ...

• Bernoulli in German, French or Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.