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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi has received more than 755,804 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi is the 105th most popular mathematician (down from 103rd in 2019), the 605th most popular biography from Germany (down from 593rd in 2019) and the 15th 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 105 out of 1,004. Before him are Isaac Barrow, Grigori Perelman, Joan Clarke, Christian Goldbach, Willebrord Snellius, and Thomas Harriot. After him are Charles Hermite, Paul Ehrenfest, John Wallis, Anthemius of Tralles, Girard Desargues, and Brook Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi ranks 16. Before him are Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Mongkut, Mikhail Glinka, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Owen, and Marie Taglioni. After him are Eugène Sue, John Deere, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, and Carl von Rokitansky. Among people deceased in 1851, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi ranks 10. Before him are Mary Shelley, Louis Daguerre, James Fenimore Cooper, Karl Drais, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, and Petar II Petrović-Njegoš. After him are Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Manuel Godoy, Gaspare Spontini, Rama III, and Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi ranks 605 out of 7,253. Before him are Bruno Bauer (1809), Polykarp Kusch (1911), Felix Hoffmann (1868), Hans-Dieter Flick (1965), Sandra (1962), and Rudolf von Jhering (1818). After him are Julia Drusilla (16), Arno Breker (1900), Karl Wolff (1900), Curd Jürgens (1915), Max Reger (1873), and Johann Reuchlin (1455).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi ranks 15. Before him are Friedrich Bessel (1784), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Richard Dedekind (1831), Alexander Grothendieck (1928), Regiomontanus (1436), and Felix Klein (1849). After him are Christopher Clavius (1538), Hermann Weyl (1885), Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), Hermann of Reichenau (1013), Andrew Wiles (1953), and Johannes Trithemius (1462).

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