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.
English |
French |
German |
Latin |
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.