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(b. Potsdam, Germany, 10 December 1804; d.

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Berlin, Germany, 18 February 1851)

mathematics.

The second son of Simon Jacobi, a Jewish banker, the precocious boy (originally called Jacques Simon) grew up in a wealthy and cultured family. His brother Moritz, three years older, later gained fame as a physicist in St. Petersburg. His younger brother, Eduard, carried on the banking business after his father’s death.

He also had a sister, Therese.

After being educated by his mother’s brother, Jacobi entered the Gymnasium at Potsdam in November 1816. Promoted to the first (highest) class after a few months in spite of his youth, he had to remain there for four years because he could not enter the university until he was sixteen.

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When he graduated from the Gymnasium in the spring of 1821, he excelled in Greek, Latin, and history and had acquired a knowledge of mathematics far beyond that provided by the school curriculum. He had studied Euler’s Introducti Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi - MacTutor History of Mathematics ... FUR