Talk:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

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Please update this rating as the article progresses, or if the rating is inaccurate. Click to show/hide comments. Please add to or update the comments to suggest improvements to the article. Separate sections, add citation, remove unsourced POV in Lead--Cronholm144 01:56, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Why does the article's title begin with Carl, but the article itself and the caption of the photo with Karl? Does anybody know which name is correct? --Pt 15:29, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• Why is Jacob spelled with a C in the article body, but with K in the title? Google has more hits for "Jacob Jacobi" than for "Jakob Jacobi". Request for article move?

How do you pronounce his name in German? User:Mtaub 4 Nov 2004

• Exactly what I came to the page to find out, but alas. Apparently, this guy says it's juh 'koh bee. Not sure how to write pronunciation notation to edit myself though. Ideally there'd be an audio file from a native speaker, like with Dostoyevsky for example.--Kevmitch 21:37, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Info box

I tweeked the part about his religion. --Tom 17:54, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Algorist?

The article mentions that Jacobi was an "algorist," but the use of the term "algorist" is archaic, in particular it has been appropriated by the Algorists. The best I can find is "algorist" means "one who does arithmetic with Indo-Arabic numerals, as opposed to an Abacist who does arithmetic using an abacus or counting table." although this definition was suggested without attribution in a math forum here [1]. In any case, it is difficult to track down an authoritative definition, and even if this definition is correct, I don't see how this is a notable detail about Jacobi, so I'm deleting it. Can we substitute it with something? I am not familiar enough with Jacobi's work to be much help in the regard. In addition there is the (slight) chance that someone would mistake this as an alternate spelling of "algebraist." Mistercupcake 03:59, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Religion section

I don’t see why there should be any religion entry in Jacobi's article Infobox. For now I only made the things clearer-Jacobi didn't convert to Christianity as a religious act but rather he did it since there was no other option for him in this anti-Semitic Prussian society, like to many other Jews back then who want to have free profession, but to do so. To avoid disagreements I suggest that we Just delete this entry which has shaky importance any way.--Gilisa 16:22, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

pooop. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.177.135.117 (talk) 17:14, 19 November 2007 (UTC)