Daniel Bernoulli, proclaimed to be the greatest out of all the Bernoulli in his family, made the basis for the kinetic theory of gases, applied the idea of Boyle’s law, worked on elasticity with Leonhard Euler, the development of the Euler-Bernoulli beam equation, and one of the most important Bernoulli’s Principle which is critical to aerodynamics. At the beginning of Daniel’s life he wasn’t allowed to choose what he wanted to be or be able to pursue the career he wanted, but this shaped the way his life would be later on in the future. With his success in life his father would grow jealous of Daniel, and come to hate him and everything he did. Daniel Bernoulli was born in Groningen, Netherlands, on February 8th of 1700, to a family of known
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With the help of Christian Goldbach, a fellow mathematician, Bernoulli published his first mathematical work, Mathematical exercises in 1724. It consisted of four parts all, of which Bernoulli found interesting while in Venice. The first part is of little importance and only showed that Bernoulli was learning about probability. The second part was the flow of water from a hole in a container and talked about Newton’s theories which were wrong. This shows that Bernoulli was interested in pressure and had not yet solved the problem of it yet, but was heading in the right direction. The third part was on the Riccati differential equation, which was created by Jacopo Riccati and was the base of the Bernoulli equation. The fourth part was a geometry question concerning about figures bounded by two arcs of a circle. Also while in Venice, Daniel designed an hourglass that could be used at sea and would trickle sand at a constant even when ships were at heavy seas. After he created his design, he then submitted it to the Paris Academy and in 1725, the year he left Italy and returned to Basel, he learned that he had won the Grand Prize of the Paris Academy. He would later go on to win the Grand Prize of the Paris Academy 10 times for his knowledge of astronomy and his nautical
With the help of Christian Goldbach, a fellow mathematician, Bernoulli published his first mathematical work, Mathematical exercises in 1724. It consisted of four parts all, of which Bernoulli found interesting while in Venice. The first part is of little importance and only showed that Bernoulli was learning about probability. The second part was the flow of water from a hole in a container and talked about Newton’s theories which were wrong. This shows that Bernoulli was interested in pressure and had not yet solved the problem of it yet, but was heading in the right direction. The third part was on the Riccati differential equation, which was created by Jacopo Riccati and was the base of the Bernoulli equation. The fourth part was a geometry question concerning about figures bounded by two arcs of a circle. Also while in Venice, Daniel designed an hourglass that could be used at sea and would trickle sand at a constant even when ships were at heavy seas. After he created his design, he then submitted it to the Paris Academy and in 1725, the year he left Italy and returned to Basel, he learned that he had won the Grand Prize of the Paris Academy. He would later go on to win the Grand Prize of the Paris Academy 10 times for his knowledge of astronomy and his nautical