Daniel Bernoulli

Daniel Bernoulli was born on 8 February 1700 into Basel's Bernoulli family, a dynasty thick with mathematicians. He turned his attention to mechanics, particularly the behavior of fluids in motion, and pioneered early work in probability and statistics. The principle that bears his name emerged from that focus: a expression of energy conservation that describes how pressure drops as fluid velocity rises. It would eventually underpin the carburetor and the aeroplane wing, two technologies that reshaped the century after his death. He died on 27 March 1782, his equations outlasting him by genera…