Johann Bernoulli Quotes

Nevertheless his prodigious intellectual powers persisted unabated. In 1696, the Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli challenged his colleagues to solve an unresolved issue called the brachistochrone problem, specifying the curve connecting two points displaced from each other laterally, along which a body, acted upon only by gravity, would fall in the shortest time.

In my view, Euler's tranquil temperament, fairness, and generosity were integral to his greatness as a mathematician and scientist- he was never inclined to waste time and energy engaging in petty one-upmanship (like his mentor, Johann Bernoulli, who was known for getting into the eighteenth-century version of flame wars with his older brother, mathematician Jakob Bernoulli, and even with his own son, Daniel, over technical disputes), brooding about challenges to his authority (like Newton), or refusing to publish important findings because of the fear that they might be disputed (like Gauss).

La verdad se supo sólo 251 años después de la muerte del marqués. En 1955 se pudo publicar la correspondencia de Johann Bernoulli y con ella su carta a L’Hôpital explicándole la regla que el marqués publicó luego como propia. Sorprendentemente, los libros de cálculo posteriores a 1955 siguen explicando la regla de L’Hôpital cuando debería ser la regla de Johann Bernoulli y quizás el añadido publicitario sponsor: marqués de L’Hôpital. ==========