Portrait of Jakob Bernoulli

Jakob Bernoulli

1654–1705

Swiss mathematician

Even as the finite encloses an infinite series, / And in the unlimited limits appear, / So the soul of immensity dwells in minuta / And in the narrowest limits, no limits inhere. / What joy to discern the minute in infinity! / The vast to perceive in the small, what Divinity!

TOPICS: infinity, series