Jacob Bernoulli
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Jacob Bernoulli 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 nu
Jakob Bernoulli
Image from Acta Eruditorum (1682) wherein was published the critique of Bernoulli's Conamen novi systematis cometarum
Jacob Bernoulli's tombstone in Basel Münster
De gravitate aetheris, 1683
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist, and diplomat who is credited, alongside Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to ma
Jacob Bernoulli
…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. A member of…
Leibniz c. 1695
Leibniz monument at Leipzig University
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Stepped reckoner