scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1120158
C. G. J. Jacobi is characterized as ``Euler of the 19-th century. A thoughtworthy day July 16, 1849 is emphasized, when the three greatest German mathematicians had met: Dirichlet and Jacobi (both 44), had been hurried on the 50-th doctorjubilee of Gauss (72) in Göttingen. Jacobi's biography is started here by his self-written ``Vita, composed in connection with his promotion in Berlin in 1825. Then the Jew's problem in Germany is discussed; there is stressed that only the Christians in the course of his study-years made possible Jacobi to ``become the first Jew mathematician who gained a leading position in Germany (as is stated by F. Klein) but not the edict of 1812 (as alleges Klein). The general situation in Königsberg in the Jacobi's years 1826-43 is characterized, especially his own activity has been described. It is stressed that Jacobi was above all representative of pure mathematics, a ``mathematical monk rather than a ``mathematischer Weltmann. Jacobi's removing to Berlin in 1844 was caused mainly by the climate conditions after he had fallen ill with Diabetes mellitus in 1841. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0840.01058].
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