“It is a pity that you did not publish this work since you have published so may poorer papers.”
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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, determinants and number theory.
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science · German mathematician (1804–1851) · mathematician · university teacher · physicist · also Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacobi, C. G. J. Jacobi, Jacobi, Karl Gustavo Jacobi, Carolus Gustavus Iacobus Iacobi
Born 10 December 1804 · Died 18 February 1851 · Q76564
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1854· 1 entry
Required the introduction of the hyperelliptic theta function and later the general Riemann theta function for algebraic curves of arbitrary genus
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1851· 1 entry
Died 1851-02-18.
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1841· 2 entries
“De formatione et proprietatibus determinantium”
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Reintroduced the partial derivative ∂ notation of Legendre, which was to become standard
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1833· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1833).
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1830· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix des sciences mathématiques (1830).
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1826· 1 entry
Jacobi became a private lecturer, in the next year an extraordinary professor, and in finally 1829, a tenured professor of mathematics at Königsberg University, and held the chair until 1842
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1825· 1 entry
Obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy with a dissertation on the partial fraction decomposition of rational fractions defended before a committee led by Enno Dirksen
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1824· 1 entry
Studied at Frederick William University Berlin (1821–1824).
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1821· 2 entries
Jacobi went to study at Berlin University, where he initially divided his attention between his passions for philology and mathematics
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Studied at Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Gymnasium (1816–1821).
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1816· 1 entry
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
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1804· 1 entry
Born 1804-12-10.
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