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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
German mathematician (–)
"Carl Jacobi" redirects here. For the American author, see Carl Richard Jacobi.
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (;[2]German:[jaˈkoːbi]; 10 December – 18 February )[a] was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, determinants and number theory.
Carl g j jacobi biography
Biography
Jacobi was born of Ashkenazi Jewish parentage in Potsdam on 10 December He was the second of four children of a banker, Simon Jacobi. His elder brother, Moritz, would also become known later as an engineer and physicist.
He was initially home schooled by his uncle Lehman, who instructed him in the classical languages and elements of mathematics. In , the twelve-year-old Jacobi went to the Potsdam Gymnasium, where students were taught all the standard subjects: classical languages, history, philology, mathematics, sciences, etc.
As a result of the good education he had received fr