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Johann Bernoulli

1667 - 1748

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Johann Bernoulli (also known as Jean in French or John in English; 6 August [O.S. 27 July] 1667 – 1 January 1748) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Bernoulli has received more than 677,739 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Bernoulli is the 38th most popular mathematician (up from 42nd in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 18th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Mathematician.

Johann Bernoulli is most famous for his work in the field of fluid dynamics, specifically his work on Bernoulli's principle.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Johann Bernoulli ranks 38 out of 1,004. Before him are Gerolamo Cardano, Georg Cantor, Ada Lovelace, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, and Kurt Gödel. After him are Emmy Noether, Pope Sylvester II, Gottlob Frege, George Boole, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1667, Johann Bernoulli ranks 2. Before him is Jonathan Swift. After him are Abraham de Moivre, Maria Anna of Neuburg, Queen Inhyeon, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Antonio Lotti, Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Alessandro Magnasco, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, and James Louis Sobieski. Among people deceased in 1748, Johann Bernoulli ranks 1. After him are Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I, Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, Ewald Georg von Kleist, Abul Khair Khan, Johann Gottfried Walther, Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ebrahim Afshar, Muhammad Shah, Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg, and William Kent.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Bernoulli ranks 19 out of 1,015. Before him are Paul Klee (1879), Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1945), Charles Albert Gobat (1843), Johanna Spyri (1827), Francesco Borromini (1599), and Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861). After him are Alberto Giacometti (1901), Albert Hofmann (1906), Carl Spitteler (1845), Élie Ducommun (1833), Bruno Ganz (1941), and Arnold Böcklin (1827).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Johann Bernoulli ranks 2. Before him are Leonhard Euler (1707). After him are Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Jost Bürgi (1552), Jakob Steiner (1796), Paul Guldin (1577), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), and Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750).

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