Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
December 10, 1804 –February 18, 1851
Mathematician, University teacher, Physicist
Lived 46 years
- Born in
- Potsdam
- Passed away in
- Berlin
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (; German: [jaˈkoːbi]; 10 December 1804 – 18 February 1851) was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, determinants and number theory.
Notable works: Jacobi method, Fundamenta nova theoriae functionum ellipticarum, Jacobi elliptic functions, Carathéodory–Jacobi–Lie theorem, Jacobi's four-square theorem, Jacobi eigenvalue algorithm, Jacobi ellipsoid, Jacobi identity Awards: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Grand prix des sciences mathématiques, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Pour le Mérite Education: Frederick William University Berlin, University of Königsberg, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Gymnasium
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