jacques bernoulli meaning

Noun: Jacques Bernoulli

1. Swiss mathematician (1654-1705)
   - Bernoulli, Jakob Bernoulli, James Bernoulli

Type of: mathematician

Encyclopedia: Jacques Bernoulli

Examples

1. After he retired from there in 1976, he wrote on mathematics and edited works by Jacques Bernoulli and Pierre de Fermat, two French giants in mathematics.
2. A New York Times News Service article sent on Sunday, August 9, about the obituary of the mathematician Andre Weil misstated the nationality of the mathematician Jacques Bernoulli; he was Swiss, not French.
3. A fundamental result in analytical mechanics is D'Alembert's principle, introduced in 1708 by Jacques Bernoulli to understand static equilibrium, and developed by D'Alembert in 1743 to solve dynamical problems.