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Jacob Bernoulli

died 319 years ago

16 August 1705

Jacob Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician who was the first to use the term integral. He studied the catenary, the curve of a suspended string. He was an early user of polar coordinates and discovered the isochrone.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bernoulli_Jacob/