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1655–1705 Switzerland

Jacob Bernoulli (January 6, 1655- August 16, 1705) also known as James or Jacques; was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He was an early proponent of Leibnizian calculus and had sided with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy.

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Also known as: Jacques Bernoulli, James Bernoulli

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Eadem mutata resurgo [Changed and yet the same, I rise again]

Gravestone marker (1705)

The art of measuring, as precisely as possible, probabilities of things, with the goal that we would be able always to choose or follow in our judgments and actions that course, which will have been determined to be better, more satisfactory, safer or more advantageous.

Ars Conjectandi (1713)

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