The Bernoulli numbers were discovered around the same time by the Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli, after whom they are named, and independently by Japanese mathematician Seki Kōwa.

* 1654 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician ( d. 1705 )

* Leonhard Euler, ( 1707 – 1783 ), Swiss mathematician and physicist

* 1695 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician ( d. 1726 )

* 1632 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician ( b. 1552 )

* 1577 – Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician ( d. 1643 )

* 1667 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician ( d. 1748 )

He showed it to the mathematician Eduard Stiefel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich ( Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ( ETH ) Zürich ) who ordered one in 1950.

15 April 170718 September 1783 ) was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist.

However, it is believed that the rule was discovered by the Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli.

The Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler pioneered the modern approach to congruence in about 1750, when he explicitly introduced the idea of congruence modulo a number N.

* 1967 – Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician ( b. 1885 )

* 11-Armand Borel, 80, notable Swiss mathematician.

* 1783 – Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician ( b. 1707 )

* 1977 – Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician ( b. 1888 )

In 1738, Swiss physicist and mathematician Daniel Bernoulli published Hydrodynamica which laid the basis for the kinetic theory of gases.

* Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and physicist

* Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician

* April 1 – Jakob Steiner, Swiss mathematician ( b. 1796 )

* April 15 – Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist ( d. 1783 )

* March 18 – Jakob Steiner, Swiss mathematician ( d. 1863 )

* August 26 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer ( d. 1777 )

** Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician ( d. 2003 )

* January 4 – Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician ( b. 1704 )

* 1672 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar ( d. 1733 )

The inductive hypothesis was also employed by the Swiss Jakob Bernoulli, and from then on it became more or less well known.

* 1944 – Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist ( b. 1875 )

* August 13 – Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman ( b. 1540 )

* March 23 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian ( b. 1693 )

* October 1 – Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman ( d. 1617 )

* June 23 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar ( b. 1672 )

** Jakob Abbadie, Swiss Protestant preacher ( b. c. 1654 )

* December 27 – Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and scientist ( d. 1705 )

* July 19 – Johann Jakob Bodmer, Swiss author ( d. 1783 )

* A religious schism takes place in Switzerland within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists led by Jakob Ammann.

* March 5 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian ( d. 1754 )

* August 2 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar ( d. 1733 )

When the edition of the acts of the colloquy, as prepared by Jakob Andrea, was published, Samuel Huber, of Burg near Bern, who belonged to the Lutheranizing faction of the Swiss clergy, took so great offense at the supralapsarian doctrine of predestination propounded at Mömpelgard by Beza and Musculus that he felt it to be his duty to denounce Musculus to the magistrates of Bern as an innovator in doctrine.

* Karl Jakob Weber ( 1712 – 1764 ), Swiss architect and engineer ; lead first organized excavations at Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae

* Jakob Hermann, Swiss mathematician ( 1678 – 1733 )

* Jakob Dubs ( 1822 – 1879 ), Swiss politician

Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ( August 2, 1672 – June 23, 1733 ) was a Swiss scholar born at Zürich.

The modern rediscovery of Wolfram begins with the publication of a translation of Parzival in 1753 by the Swiss scholar Johann Jakob Bodmer.

Jakob Ammann is known because his prominent involvement in a schism among the Swiss Brethren that began in 1693.

In 1693, Jakob Ammann, " together with the ministers and elders ," sent a general letter to people within the Swiss Brethren congregations, asking for a meeting in which he wanted clarification about where they stood on three issues: 1 ) Shunning those who had been banned, 2 ) whether liars should be excommunicated, and 3 ) if people could be saved who did not follow God's word.

In February of 1700, Jakob Ammann and several of his co-ministers removed the bann from the Swiss ministers and excommunicated themselves in recognition that they had acted too rashly and had " grievously erred.