ABSTRACT

Between 1695 and 1705, Johann Bernoulli and his wife Dorothea thrived in Groningen , Holland, producing several children and fi rmly establishing Johann ’s scholarly career. In 1699 both brothers Jacob and Johann were elected to the Paris Academy , and in 1701 Johann was elected to the Berlin Academy , to which Jacob had been elected several years earlier. It was clear to the academic world that the Bernoulli brothers, like Leibniz and Newton in the generation before them, were the most important mathematicians of their generation.