Daniel Bernoulli is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.
16 Facts About Daniel Bernoulli
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Daniel Bernoulli's name is commemorated in the Bernoulli's principle, a particular example of the conservation of energy, which describes the mathematics of the mechanism underlying the operation of two important technologies of the 20th century: the carburetor and the airplane wing.
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Daniel Bernoulli was born in Groningen, in the Netherlands, into a family of distinguished mathematicians.
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The Daniel Bernoulli family came originally from Antwerp, at that time in the Spanish Netherlands, but emigrated to escape the Spanish persecution of the Protestants.
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Daniel Bernoulli is said to have had a bad relationship with his father.
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Johann Bernoulli plagiarized some key ideas from Daniel's book Hydrodynamica in his own book Hydraulica which he backdated to before Hydrodynamica.
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Around schooling age, his father, Johann Daniel Bernoulli, encouraged him to study business, there being poor rewards awaiting a mathematician.
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Daniel Bernoulli later gave in to his father's wish and studied business.
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Daniel Bernoulli studied medicine at Basel, Heidelberg, and Strasbourg, and earned a PhD in anatomy and botany in 1721.
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Daniel Bernoulli was a contemporary and close friend of Leonhard Euler.
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Daniel Bernoulli went to St Petersburg in 1724 as professor of mathematics, but was very unhappy there.
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Daniel Bernoulli returned to the University of Basel, where he successively held the chairs of medicine, metaphysics, and natural philosophy until his death.
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Daniel Bernoulli wrote a large number of papers on various mechanical questions, especially on problems connected with vibrating strings, and the solutions given by Brook Taylor and by Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
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Daniel Bernoulli realised that in a similar way, a moving fluid exchanges its specific kinetic energy for pressure, the former being the kinetic energy per unit volume.
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Daniel Bernoulli often noticed that when making decisions that involved some uncertainty, people did not always try to maximize their possible monetary gain, but rather tried to maximize "utility", an economic term encompassing their personal satisfaction and benefit.
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Daniel Bernoulli realized that for humans, there is a direct relationship between money gained and utility, but that it diminishes as the money gained increases.