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{{Infobox scientist
| image = Carl Jacobi.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1804|12|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Potsdam]], [[Kingdom of Prussia]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1851|2|18|1804|12|10|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Berlin]], Kingdom of Prussia
| nationality = German
| field = [[Mathematician]]
| work_institution = Königsberg University
| alma_mater = [[Humboldt University of Berlin|University of Berlin]] (Ph.D., 1825)
| thesis_title = Disquisitiones Analyticae de Fractionibus Simplicibus
| thesis_url = http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PPN=PPN270894594&DMDID=DMDLOG_0001&LOGID=LOG_0001&PHYSID=PHYS_0001
| thesis_year = 1825
| doctoral_advisor = Enno Dirksen
| doctoral_students = Paul Gordan<br/>Otto Hesse<br/>Friedrich Julius Richelot<!--[[Oswald Hermes]]<br/>[[Otto Hesse]]<br/>[[Friedrich Richelot]]<br/>[[Wilhelm Scheibner]]-->
| known_for = Jacobi's elliptic functions<ref>Weisstein, Eric W. "Jacobi Elliptic Functions." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/JacobiEllipticFunctions.html</ref><ref>Jacobi elliptic functions. E.D. Solomentsev (originator), Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Jacobi_elliptic_functions&oldid=11940</ref><br/>Jacobian matrix and determinant<ref>Weisstein, Eric W. "Jacobian." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Jacobian.html</ref><br/>Jacobi ellipsoid<br/>Jacobi polynomials<ref>Weisstein, Eric W. "Jacobi Polynomial." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/JacobiPolynomial.html</ref><ref>Jacobi polynomials. P.K. Suetin (originator), Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Jacobi_polynomials&oldid=18958</ref><br/>Jacobi transform<br/>Jacobi operator<br/>Hamilton–Jacobi equation<br/>Popularizing the character ∂<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jeff560.tripod.com/calculus.html|author=Aldrich, John|title=Earliest Uses of Symbols of Calculus|access-date=20 April 2017}}</ref>
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'''Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi''' ({{IPAc-en|dʒ|ə|ˈ|k|oʊ|b|i}};<ref>"Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob". ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''.</ref> {{IPA-de|jaˈkoːbi|lang}}; 10 December 1804 – 18 February 1851) was a [[Germans|German]] [[mathematician]] who contributed to elliptic functions, [[differential equation]]s, [[determinants]], and [[number theory]]. He was the first [[Jews|Jewish]] mathematician to be appointed professor at a German university.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/setting-the-record-straight-about-jewish-mathematicians-in-nazi-germany-1.397629 |title=Setting the record straight about Jewish mathematicians in Nazi Germany|newspaper= Haaretz|first=Ofer |last=Aderet |date=25 November 2011}}</ref>

==Other websites==
{{Wikiquote}}
* [https://archive.org/details/gesammelwerke00jacorich Jacobi's ''Vorlesungen über Dynamik'']
* {{MacTutor Biography|id=Jacobi}}
* {{Cite Americana|wstitle=Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jakob |short=x}}
* {{Cite NIE|wstitle=Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jakob|year=1905 |short=x}}
* {{Cite AmCyc|wstitle=Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jakob |short=x}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130513144451/http://portail.mathdoc.fr/cgi-bin/oetoc?id=OE_JACOBI__1 Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi - Œuvres complètes] Gallica-Math
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[[Category:1804 births]]
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[[Category:People from Potsdam]]
[[Category:German mathematicians]]
[[Category:German Jews]]