Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804 51) was one of the nineteenth century's greatest mathematicians, as attested by the diversity of mathematical objects named after him. His early work on number theory had already attracted the attention of Carl Friedrich Gauss, but his reputation was made by his work on elliptic functions. Elliptic integrals had been studied for a long time, but in 1827 Jacobi and Niels Henrik Abel realised independently that the correct way to view them was by means of their inverse functions what we now call the elliptic functions. The next few years witnessed a flowering of...
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804 51) was one of the nineteenth century's greatest mathematicians, as attested by the diversity of mathematical objects n...
