Johann Bernoulli
1667 CE–1748 CE · Basel
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. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and for educating the young Leonhard Euler.
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Basel, a city on the Rhine in northwestern Switzerland, has a Jewish community of long standing and a central place in modern Jewish history as the site of the First Zionist Congress, convened by Theodor Herzl in 1897, which founded the World Zionist Organization and adopted the Basel Program. Several later Zionist congresses were also held there.
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Jacob Bernoulli, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler
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