Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
German mathematician (1804–1851) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Carl Jacobi" redirects here. For the American author, see Carl Richard Jacobi.
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (/dʒəˈkoʊbi/;[2] German: [jaˈkoːbi]; 10 December 1804 – 18 February 1851)[lower-alpha 1] was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, determinants, and number theory.
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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi | |
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Born | (1804-12-10)10 December 1804 |
Died | 18 February 1851(1851-02-18) (aged 46) Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia |
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Berlin (Ph.D., 1825) |
Known for | Abel–Jacobi theorem Jacobi's elliptic functions Jacobian Jacobi symbol Jacobi ellipsoid Jacobi polynomials Jacobi transform Jacobi identity Jacobi operator Hamilton–Jacobi equation Jacobi method Jacobi eigenvalue algorithm Popularizing the character ∂[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Königsberg University |
Thesis | Disquisitiones Analyticae de Fractionibus Simplicibus (1825) |
Doctoral advisor | Enno Dirksen |
Doctoral students | Paul Gordan Otto Hesse Friedrich Julius Richelot |
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