Desigualdade de jacques bernoulli biography summary

In , the theologian, natural scientist and mathematician Jakob Bernoulli was born in Basel, and passed away in , again in his hometown. Unfortunately, his ideas were far ahead of his time and were not understood during his life. In , Pope Gregor XIII released a decree, in which a new calendar was introduced because the mean year of the then used Julian calendar was too long and had caused the vernal equinox to drift backwards in the calendar year.

The date of birth is the first misunderstanding with respect to Jakob Bernoulli. In , he earned the degree of Magister Artium in philosophy at the age of sixteen, and in , he obtained the degree of Licentiate in theology. In [1] it is reported that his sermons in the German and French language were met with approval. During these years, he autodidacticly dealt with mathematics and at the early age of eighteen, he successfully solved a difficult problema chronologica according to [15, 8].

After his graduation in , Jakob Bernoulli set out on a four-year journey through Switzerland and France. He first settled in Geneva as a tutor [8], where he taught a blind girl how to write in a self-developed Braille and then went on to France, where among others he started to study the works of Descartes. Returning to Basel in , he continued to study some of the mathematical and philosophical works of Descartes and Malebranche.

Subsequently, the 25 year old theologian argued emphatically against these superior authorities, as is reported in [15] and in [8]. In , Jakob wrote his first scientific treatise.

[SAN 61] SANTALÓ L., “Sobre los sistemas completos de desigualdades entre tres elementos de una figura convexa plana”, Mathematicae Notae, vol.

It deals with the Kirch comet 2 , claiming that comets are eternal bodies, whose course can be calculated. The treatise was published in under the title 3 Newly discovered Method of how the path of a Comet or Tailed Star can be reduced to certain fundamental laws, and its appearance predicted , Basel , see [12]. Jakob Bernoulli predicted 4 the return of the comet for 17 May