Jakob Bernoulli, head of a dynasty of brilliant scholars, was one of the world's leading mathematicians. His great work, Ars Conjectandi, published in 1713, included a profound result that he ...

The Science Quiz appears twice a week in the daily science page. The page is available to read on all days except Saturday in the epaper. Questions (answers at the bottom): 1. The Bernoulli numbers ...

The numbers are named for the 17th century Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and consist of a sequence of rational numbers which are important for number theory. Needless to say, Altoumaimi’s ...

When looking at the formula for power sums (sums of powers), there is a coefficient that is impossible to ignore. For example,$$\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}k^m$$When expanded as a polynomial in $${n}$$, the ...

Once upon a time, there lived a family in Switzerland—by the name of Bernoulli. I mention the name because most once-students of science know of it from physics in high-school or early-college years.