Editing Jacob Bernoulli (section)

==Tombstone==
[[Image:Basel - Grabstein Bernoulli.jpg|thumb|Jacob Bernoulli's tombstone in [[Basel Münster]]]]
Bernoulli wanted a [[logarithmic spiral]] and the motto ''[[Eadem mutata resurgo]]'' ('Although changed, I rise again the same') engraved on his tombstone. He wrote that the [[Self-similarity|self-similar]] spiral "may be used as a symbol, either of fortitude and constancy in adversity, or of the human body, which after all its changes, even after death, will be restored to its exact and perfect self". Bernoulli died in 1705, but an [[Archimedean spiral]] was engraved rather than a logarithmic one.<ref>{{cite book|last=Livio|first=Mario|author-link=Mario Livio|title=The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bUARfgWRH14C|orig-year=2002|edition=First trade paperback|year=2003|publisher=[[Random House|Broadway Books]]|location=New York City|isbn=0-7679-0816-3|pages=116–17}}</ref>

Translation of Latin inscription:
:Jacob Bernoulli, the incomparable mathematician. 
:Professor at the University of Basel For more than 18 years; 
:member of the Royal Academies of Paris and Berlin; famous for his writings.
:Of a chronic illness, of sound mind to the end; 
:succumbed in the year of grace 1705, the 16th of August, at the age of 50 years and 7 months, awaiting the resurrection. 
:Judith Stupanus, 
:his wife for 20 years, 
:and his two children have erected a monument to the husband and father they miss so much.