List of Famous people born in Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

Walter Morath

First Name Walter

Last Name Morath

Died on July 3, 1995 (aged 25)

Born in Switzerland, Basel-Stadt

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Jacob Bernoulli

First Name Jacob

Last Name Bernoulli

Died on August 16, 1705

Born in Switzerland, Basel-Stadt

Jacob Bernoulli was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He was an early proponent of Leibnizian calculus and sided with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy. He is known for his numerous contributions to calculus, and along with his brother Johann, was one of the founders of the calculus of variations. He also discovered the fundamental mathematical constant $e$ . However, his most important contribution was in the field of probability, where he derived the first version of the law of large numbers in his work Ars Conjectandi.

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