Person: Jacobi, Carl

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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.

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Born 10 December 1804, Potsdam, Prussia (now Germany). Died 18 February 1851, Berlin, Germany.

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Algebra, Astronomy, Group Theory, Origin Germany, Physics


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  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive