Transcript Daniel Bernoulli

DANIEL BERNOULLI
Swiss mathematician and physicist
DATA :
Born : February 8, 1700, Groningen Netherland
Died : March 17, 1782, Basel Switzerland
Education : Universality of Basel
Parents : Dorathea Falkner, Johann Bernoulli
Siblings : Nicolaus II Bernoulli
Uncles : Jacob Bernoulli
FACTS :
• Daniel Bernoulli was a Swiss
Mathematicians and physicist and was
one of the many prominent
mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.
• Around schooling age, his father, Johann, encouraged him to study
business, there being poor rewards awaiting a mathematician.
• Daniel refused, because he wanted to study mathematics. He later gave in
to his father's wish and studied business. His father then asked him to
study in medicines, and Daniel agreed under the condition that his father
would teach him mathematics privately, which they continued for some
times.
• His earliest mathematical work was the Exercitations (Mathematical Exercises),
published in 1724 with the help of Goldbach. Two years later he pointed
out for the first time the frequent desirability of resolving a compound
motion into motions of translation and motion of rotation.
• In Hydrodynamic (1738) he laid the basis for the kinetic theory of gases, and
applied the idea to explain Boyle's law]