Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

1804–1851 · German mathematician

Topics: mathematics

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

  — Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

• Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.

  — Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi