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Bernoulli, Nicholas (1695-1726)
    

Swiss mathematician, son of Johann Bernoulli and brother of Daniel Bernoulli. With Daniel Bernoulli, he discussed the Saint Petersburg paradox Eric Weisstein's World of Math (Boyer 1968, p. 463).

Bernoulli (Daniel), Bernoulli (Jakob), Bernoulli (Johann)


Additional biographies: MacTutor (St. Andrews), Bonn




References

Bell, E. T. "Nature or Nurture? The Bernoullis." Ch. 8 in Men of Mathematics: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Mathematicians from Zeno to Poincaré. New York: Simon and Schuster, pp. 131-138, 1986.

Boyer, C. B. A History of Mathematics, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 1968.



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