'''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> | '''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> |