| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Bernoulli |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Ber·noul·li |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b r-n  l |
| 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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