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Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob
(b. Potsdam, Germany, 10 December 1804; d. 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.
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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. 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