Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was a German mathematician who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, determinants, and number theory. His name is sometimes given as Karl Gustav Jakob.

10 December 1804

Born on the same birth day (10 December): Fábio Rochemback • George Shaw (biologist) • Harold Gould • Patrick Flueger • Philip R. Craig • Stephanie Morgenstern • Torsten Bergström • William Lloyd Garrison • Yasmin Alibhai-Brown • Yōko Oginome

Born in the same month (December 1804): Benjamin Disraeli • Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve • John Langdon Sibley • Joseph Howe • Viktor Bunyakovsky