Nature - Bernoulli was ahead of modern epidemiologyBernoulli's main objective was to calculate the adjusted life table if smallpox were to be eliminated as a cause of death. He clearly defined the ...

Bernoulli’s arguments have been greatly simplified, and his law of large numbers has been taken up by many later mathematicians: De Moivre, Laplace, Poisson, Chebyshev, Markov and Kolmogorov.