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Jakob Bernoulli, head of a dynasty of brilliant scholars, was one of the world's leading mathematicians. His great work, Ars Conjectandi, published in 1713, included a profound result that he ...

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Once upon a time, there lived a family in Switzerland—by the name of Bernoulli. I mention the name because most once-students of science know of it from physics in high-school or early-college years.