Esplanatio Notationum Suarum Solutio Problematis by Bernoulli Daniel (1 results)

Acta Eruditorum, 1725/10. - Leipzig, Grossium & Gleditsch, Oktober 1725, 4°, pp.433-480, 1 gefalt. Kupferstichtafel, Rückenbroschur. First Edition! Bernoulli's paper is a solution to the Riccati-equation: "Using the first of the two transformations in [The Riccati-equation], Bernoulli succeded in constructing solutions of "an inifinite number" of Riccati equations for those values of n for which a solution can be expressed in finite terms. -cf. Greenberg. The problem of the earth's shape from Newton to Clairaut, p.573 Daniel Bernoulli FRS (1700-1782) Swiss mathematician and physicist and he was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics. His name is commemorated in the Bernoulli's principle, a particular example of the conservation of energy, which describes the mathematics of the mechanism underlying the operation of two important technologies of the 20th century: the carburetor and the airplane wing.