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The Bernoulli Family

The mathematical Bernoullis have sometimes been thought to be much greater in number because their names are reported in various ways. One should be aware of the equivalences.

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James Jacques Jakob Jacobus
John Jean Johann Johannes
Daniel Daniel Daniel
Nicholas Nicolas Nikolaus Nicolaus

 The family tree shown below is adapted from that presented by Karl Pearson. The Bernoullis who produced works related to probability or statistics have links.