Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804 – 1851), widely known as Gustav Jacobi, was a German mathematician.

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• One should always generalize.

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• Any progress in the theory of partial differential equations must also bring about a progress in Mechanics.
  • "Vorlesungen über Dynamik"

• Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.
  • "Vorlesungen über analytische Mechanik", ed. by H. Pulte in 1996

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