The Bernoullis: When Math is the Family Business

If you’ve ever taken a science or math class, you’ve probably seen the name "Bernoulli" -- and maybe you assumed it was one person, but that family had a squad of mathematicians. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Patrick Merrithew, Will and Sonja Marple, Thomas J., Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters, charles george, Kathy & Tim Philip, Tim Curwick, Bader AlGhamdi, Justin Lentz, Patrick D. Ashmore, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Benny, Fatima Iqbal, Accalia Elementia, Kyle Anderson, and Philippe von Bergen. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johann-Bernoulli https://www.math.purdue.edu/~eremenko/bernoulli.html http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/pber.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BernoulliDistribution.html https://www.britannica.com/science/law-of-large-numbers http://www.storyofmathematics.com/18th_bernoulli.html https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-intuitive-guide-to-exponential-functions-e/ http://fredrickey.info/hm/CalcNotes/brachistochrone.pdf http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/Brachistochrone.html http://www.math.umt.edu/tmme/vol5no2and3/tmme_vol5nos2and3_a1_pp.169_184.pdf https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Bernoulli https://www.britannica.com/science/Bernoullis-theorem http://www.wired.com/2016/06/bouncy-castles-take-flight/ http://web.mit.edu/16.20/homepage/7_SimpleBeamTheory/SimpleBeamTheory_files/module_7_no_solutions.pdf http://esag.harvard.edu/rice/e0_Solid_Mechanics_94_10.pdf https://books.google.com/books?id=U2uv84cpJHQC&pg=PA700 Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACycloid_f.gif