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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–1851) was a German mathematician and physicist who made important contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry. He is best known for his work on elliptic functions, which he introduced in 1827. Jacobi's work on elliptic functions laid the foundation for the modern theory of special functions.
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