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Bernoulli, Daniel (1700–1782)

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Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist; born at Groningen, 8 February 1700; died at Basel, 17 March 1782.

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Zabell, S.L. (2018). Bernoulli, Daniel (1700–1782). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_108

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