Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)
Daniel Bernoulli FRS (/bərˈnuːli/; Swiss [bɛʁˈnʊli]; 8 February 1700 – 17 March 1782) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.
He is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.
In his 1738 book Specimen theoriae novae de mensura sortis (Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk), Bernoulli offered a solution to the St. Petersburg paradox as the basis of the economic theory of risk aversion, risk premium, and utility.
His 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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- Bernoulli family (nonfiction)
- Mathematician (nonfiction)
- Physicist (nonfiction)
- St. Petersburg paradox (nonfiction)
External links:
- Daniel Bernoulli @ Wikipedia