Jacob Bernoulli

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Jacob Bernoulli (6 January 1655 [O.S. 27 December 1654] – 16 August 1705) was a Swiss mathematician. He sided with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy and was an early proponent of Leibnizian calculus, to which he made numerous contributions.

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Image: Niklaus Bernoulli (1662-1716), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.