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Nicolaus Bernoulli (also spelled Nicolas or Nikolas; 21 October 1687, Basel – 29 November 1759, Basel) was a
Nicolaus Bernoulli (also spelled Nicolas or Nikolas; 21 October 1687, Basel – 29 November 1759, Basel) was a Swiss
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mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.
Biography
He was the son of Nicolaus Bernoulli, painter and Alderman of Basel. 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. His thesis was titled ''Dissertatio Inauguralis Mathematico-Juridica de Usu Artis Conjectandi in Jure''. In 1716 he obtained theGalileo
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-chair at the University of Padua, where he worked on differential equations
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and geometry. In 1722 he returned to Switzerland and obtained a chair in Logics
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at the University of Basel.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in March, 1714.
His most important contributions can be found in his letters, in particular to Pierre Rémond de Montmort
Pierre Remond de Montmort was a French mathematician. He was born in Paris on 27 October 1678 and died there on 7 October 1719. His name was originally just Pierre Remond. His father pressured him to study law, but he rebelled and travelled to E ...
. In these letters, he introduced in particular the St. Petersburg Paradox. He also communicated with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Leonhard Euler.
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