Daniel Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician (1700-1782) · Switzerland · Academics · Died at 82
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Something wrong?His principle explains why planes stay aloft and how carburetors once worked - a single insight about flowing fluids that became the math beneath two defining machines of the twentieth century.
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Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, AN II 4a, f. 191v - Matriculation Register of the Rectorate of the University of Basel, Volume 3 (1654-1764)
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Bernoulli, Daniel - Correspondance mathématique et physique de quelques cèlébres gèométres du 18. siècle, 1843 - BEIC IE1364473 Bernoulli Daniel
Bernoulli, Daniel - Pieces qui ont remporté le Prix double de l'Academie royale des sciences en 1737, 1737 - BEIC 1285085
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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 generations.
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