Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Born(1804-12-10)10 December 1804
Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia
Died18 February 1851(1851-02-18) (aged 46)
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Berlin (Ph.D., 1825)
Known forJacobi's elliptic functions[1][2]
Jacobian matrix and determinant[3]
Jacobi ellipsoid
Jacobi polynomials[4][5]
Jacobi transform
Jacobi operator
Hamilton–Jacobi equation
Popularizing the character ∂[6]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsKönigsberg University
ThesisDisquisitiones Analyticae de Fractionibus Simplicibus (1825)
Doctoral advisorEnno Dirksen
Doctoral studentsPaul Gordan
Otto Hesse
Friedrich Julius Richelot

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (/dʒəˈkoʊbi/;[7] German: [jaˈkoːbi]; 10 December 1804 – 18 February 1851) was a German mathematician who contributed to elliptic functions, differential equations, determinants, and number theory. He was the first Jewish mathematician to be appointed professor at a German university.[8]

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  •  "Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jakob" . Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.
  • "Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jakob" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
  • "Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jakob" . The American Cyclopædia. 1879.
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References

  1. ↑ Weisstein, Eric W. "Jacobi Elliptic Functions." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/JacobiEllipticFunctions.html
  2. ↑ Jacobi elliptic functions. E.D. Solomentsev (originator), Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Jacobi_elliptic_functions&oldid=11940
  3. ↑ Weisstein, Eric W. "Jacobian." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Jacobian.html
  4. ↑ Weisstein, Eric W. "Jacobi Polynomial." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/JacobiPolynomial.html
  5. ↑ Jacobi polynomials. P.K. Suetin (originator), Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Jacobi_polynomials&oldid=18958
  6. ↑ Aldrich, John. "Earliest Uses of Symbols of Calculus". Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  7. ↑ "Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
  8. ↑ Aderet, Ofer (25 November 2011). "Setting the record straight about Jewish mathematicians in Nazi Germany". Haaretz.