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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Born on December 10, 1804

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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (German:; 10 December 1804 – 18 February 1851) was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, determinants and number theory.

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