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unusual facts about Daniel Bernoulli


Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres

DesBarres read mathematics and art at the University of Basel, studying under John and Daniel Bernoulli.


Gamma function

The problem of extending the factorial to non-integer arguments was apparently first considered by Daniel Bernoulli and Christian Goldbach in the 1720s, and was solved at the end of the same decade by Leonhard Euler.


see also

St. Petersburg paradox

Before Daniel Bernoulli published, in 1728, another Swiss mathematician, Gabriel Cramer, had already found parts of this idea (also motivated by the St. Petersburg Paradox) in stating that