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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

1804 - 1851

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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (; German: [jaˈkoːbi]; 10 December 1804 – 18 February 1851) was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, determinants and number theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi is the 98th most popular mathematician (up from 105th in 2019), the 513th most popular biography from Germany (up from 605th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Mathematician.

C.G.J. Jacobi is most famous for his contributions to the field of mathematics, specifically the theory of elliptic functions.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi ranks 98 out of 1,004. Before him are Jim Simons, Leopold Kronecker, Frank P. Ramsey, Joan Clarke, L. E. J. Brouwer, and Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani. After him are Paul Erdős, John Wallis, Claude Shannon, Felix Klein, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, and Adrien-Marie Legendre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi ranks 14. Before him are Mikhail Glinka, Emil Lenz, Allan Kardec, Marie Taglioni, Mongkut, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. After him are Richard Owen, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, John Deere, Eugène Sue, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, and Duke Alexander of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1851, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi ranks 10. Before him are Louis Daguerre, J. M. W. Turner, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, James Fenimore Cooper, and Karl Drais. After him are Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Gaspare Spontini, Manuel Godoy, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and John James Audubon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi ranks 513 out of 7,253. Before him are Johannes Rau (1931), Hans von Aachen (1552), Adam Weishaupt (1748), Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1817), Wied, Prince of Albania (1876), and Hans Luther (1879). After him are Jost Gippert (1956), Jean Paul (1763), Robert Ley (1890), Wilhelm Schickard (1592), Hans Geiger (1882), and F. W. Murnau (1888).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi ranks 14. Before him are Friedrich Bessel (1784), Karl Weierstrass (1815), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Richard Dedekind (1831), Regiomontanus (1436), and Alexander Grothendieck (1928). After him are Felix Klein (1849), Christopher Clavius (1538), Andrew Wiles (1953), Hermann Weyl (1885), Hermann of Reichenau (1013), and Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852).

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