The Wikipedia article “Bernoulli's inequality” says, that this inequality is called after the mathematician Jacob Bernoulli. Was he the first one using the inequality? Why is this inequality named after him? When was the inequality used first?

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The Wikipedia article “Bernoulli's inequality” says, that this inequality is called after the mathematician Jacob Bernoulli. Was he the first one using the inequality? Why is this inequality named after him? When was the inequality used first?

On the Talk page of the Wikipedia article is already a thread about this. Unfortunately the link provided there does not work anymore.