Die Werke von Daniel Bernoulli

Daniel, the second son of Johann I Bernoulli, was born in Groningen. He studied medicine at Basel, Heidelberg and Strasbourg. Continuing his education in Venice, he became increasingly involved in mathematics. In 1725, Daniel was appointed to the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg, together with his brother Nicolaus II. There he turned his attention to mechanics and wrote the first draft of his Hydrodynamica; the final version, his most important single work, was to be published in Strasbourg in 1738. In 1733, Daniel returned to Basel, at first to the chair of anatomy and botanics; in 1743 he became professor of medicine, and in 1750 he was finally appointed to the chair of physics. In more than seventy papers published in various journals, Daniel treated problems in physics and mathematics, some of them involving applications of probability theory. He was awarded the prize of the Paris Ac,adémie des sciences ten times. Daniel Bernoulli died in Basel in 1782.