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Born

10 December 1804
Potsdam, Prussia (now Germany)

Died

18 February 1851
Berlin, Germany

Summary

Carl Jacobi made basic contributions to the theory of elliptic functions. He carried out important research in partial differential equations of the first order and applied them to the differential equations of dynamics.

Biography

Carl Jacobi came from a Jewish family but he was given the French style name Jacques Simon at birth.

His father, Simon Jacobi, was a banker and his family were prosperous. Carl was the second son of the family, the eldest being Moritz Jacobi who eventually became a famous physicist. Moritz Jacobi has an entry in his own right in [1].

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There was a sister, Therese Jacobi, and a third brother, Eduard Jacobi, who was younger than Carl. Eduard did not pursue an academic career, but followed instead his father's profession as a banker.

Jacobi's early education was given by an uncle on his mother's side, and then, just before hi Carl Jacobi: The Extraordinary Lifeand Work Of The Mathematician KYJIP