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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • Family of Swiss mathematicians and scientists, including Jakob or Jacques (1654–1705), an important developer of ordinary calculus and the calculus of variations. His brother Johann or Jean (1667–1748) developed the calculus of variations. Johann's son Daniel (1700–1782) anticipated the law of conservation of energy, did pioneering work in the molecular theory of gases, and contributed to probability theory and the theory of differential equations.

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  • noun Swiss mathematician (1654-1705)
  • noun Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)
  • noun Swiss physicist who contributed to hydrodynamics and mathematical physics (1700-1782)

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  • It is now known as the Bernoulli effect after the physicist who later explained the phenomenon scientifically.

    The Great Storm of 26 November 1703 Paul Brown 2010

  • All various random variables (as we started [sic] in Chapter 16 [actually Chapter 15-JK] with a +1 or -1, which is called a Bernoulli draw) under summation (we did sum up the wins of the 40 tosses) become Gaussian.

    Archive 2007-06-01 James Killus 2007

  • The vacuum created from the air and water pressure -- known as the Bernoulli principle -- has long been the accepted reason.

    Periscope 2007

  • All various random variables (as we started [sic] in Chapter 16 [actually Chapter 15-JK] with a +1 or -1, which is called a Bernoulli draw) under summation (we did sum up the wins of the 40 tosses) become Gaussian.

    Central Limit James Killus 2007

  • A law known as the Bernoulli equation means that when pressure is lower, air moves faster - so the air stream above the wing does move more quickly than the one below, but this is not what causes the difference in pressure.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph David Millward 2012

  • Ada Lovelace is therefore credited with writing the world's first computer program when she came up with a way of using the machine, which was never actually built, to calculate a mathematical sequence known as Bernoulli numbers.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

  • It is now known as the Bernoulli effect after the physicist who later explained the phenomenon scientifically.

    The Guardian World News Paul Brown 2010

  • Mohamed Altoumaimi, who immigrated to Sweden six years ago, took only four months to find a formula that explains a sequence of calculations known as the Bernoulli numbers, a code that had stumped some of the best experts in the field, Agence France-Presse reported.

    We Blog A Lot 2009

  • In just four months, Mohamed Altoumaimi has found a formula to explain and simplify the so-called Bernoulli numbers, a sequence of calculations named after the 17th century Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli, the Dagens Nyheter daily said.

    MAA Column - Devlin's Angle by Keith Devlin 2009

  • This is known as the Bernoulli’s principle and it is not why planes fly.

    Spinning Wing Airliner 2008

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