Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Born	(1804-12-10)10 December 1804 Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	18 February 1851(1851-02-18) (aged 46) Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Berlin (Ph.D., 1825)
Known for	Jacobi's elliptic functions Jacobian Jacobi symbol Jacobi ellipsoid Jacobi polynomials Jacobi transform Jacobi identity Jacobi operator Hamilton–Jacobi equation Jacobi method Jacobi eigenvalue algorithm Popularizing the character ∂[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Königsberg University
Thesis	Disquisitiones Analyticae de Fractionibus Simplicibus (1825)
Doctoral advisor	Enno Dirksen
Doctoral students	Paul Gordan Otto Hesse Friedrich Julius Richelot

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (/dʒəˈkoʊbi/;^[2] 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. His name is sometimes given as Karl Gustav Jakob.^[3]