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Encyclopedia > Nicolaus I Bernoulli

Nicolaus I Bernoulli (21 October 1687, Basel, Switzerland – 29 November 1759, Basel) was a Swiss mathematician. He was a nephew of Jacob and Johann Bernoulli. He studied mostly probability theory.


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  • A biography at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland (http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Bernoulli_Nicolaus(I).html)

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