When the cult started, it was very secretive. After Pythagoras died, the secrets began to be revealed. Pythagoreans believed that everything could be reduced to. Leonardo Pisano Bigollo was an Italian mathematician. He is usually better known by his nickname, Fibonacci, and is considered to be among the foremost European. In probability theory and statistics, the Bernoulli distribution, named after Swiss scientist Jacob Bernoulli, [1] is the probability distribution of a random. The Swiss doctor, mathematician and physician Daniel Bernoulli (1700-82), son of the mathematician Johann Bernoulli, studied medicine and mathematics in his home town. Daniel Bernoulli was born in Groningen, in the Netherlands, into a family of distinguished mathematicians. [2] The Bernoulli family came originally from Antwerp, at. MLA style: Leonhard Euler. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2016. Web. 15 Feb. 2016 . Leonhard Euler's father was Paul Euler. Paul Euler had studied theology at the University of Basel and had attended Jacob Bernoulli's lectures there. The Greatest Mathematicians of the Past ranked in approximate order of greatness. To qualify, the mathematician must be born before 1930 and his work must have Famous Mathematicians with their detailed biographies. Read about world's great mathematicians and their contribution to the field. Early Life. Aryabhata(some time misspelled as ‘Aryabhatta’) was one of the first Indian mathematicians and astronomers belonging to the classical age.