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Name of a Swiss family of mathematicians, born at Basel, though of Dutch origin—

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f whom John is the most celebrated; was professor first at St. Petersburg and then at Basel; discovered the exponential calculus and the method of integrating rational fractions, as well as the line of swiftest descent (1667-1748).