Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Jacob Bernoulli

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Jacob Bernoulli

Jacob Bernoulli was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He was an early proponent of Leibnizian calculus and sided with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy. He is known for his numerous contributions to calculus, and along with his brother Johann, was one of the founders of the calculus of variations. He also discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e. However, his most important contribution was in the field of probability, where he derived the first version of the law of large numbers in his work Ars Conjectandi.

I recognize the lion by his paw. — © Jacob Bernoulli
I recognize the lion by his paw.
It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.
Even as the finite encloses an infinite series And in the unlimited limits appear, So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia And in the narrowest limits no limit in here. What joy to discern the minute in infinity! The vast to perceive in the small, what divinity!
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