Last time, we met Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, whose calculus notation triumphed even as Newton's reputation crushed him.
We saw the binary number system, the Leibniz series for pi, and the dream of universal computation.
Welcome back to Men of Mathematics.
Today we meet not one genius, but an entire dynasty, the Bernoulli family of Basel.
They mastered Leibniz's calculus, extended it in every direction, and trained the next generation of mathematicians.
They also hated each other with a passion that makes Newton and Leibniz look like friends.