Jacobi may refer to:

People

* Jacobi (surname), a list of people with the surname * Jacobi Boykins (born 1995), American basketball player * Jacobi Francis (born 1998), American football player * Jacobi Mitchell (born 1986), Bahamian sprinter * Jacobi Robinson (born 1984), Bermudian cricketer

In mathematics

Concepts named after the German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi: * Jacobi sum, a type of character sum * Jacobi method, a method for determining the solutions of a diagonally dominant system of linear equations * Jacobi eigenvalue algorithm, a method for calculating the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a real symmetric matrix * Jacobi elliptic functions, a set of doubly-periodic functions * Jacobian matrix and determinant of a smooth map between Euclidean spaces or smooth manifolds * Jacobi operator (Jacobi matrix), a tridiagonal symmetric matrix appearing in the theory of orthogonal polynomials * Jacobi polynomials, a class of orthogonal polynomials * Jacobi symbol, a generalization of the

Legendre symbol In number theory, the Legendre symbol is a multiplicative function with values 1, −1, 0 that is a quadratic character modulo of an odd prime number ''p'': its value at a (nonzero) quadratic residue mod ''p'' is 1 and at a non-quadratic re ...

* Jacobi coordinates, a simplification of coordinates for an n-body system * Jacobi identity for non-associative binary operations * Jacobi's formula for the derivative of the determinant of a matrix * Jacobi triple product, an identity in the theory of theta functions * Jacobi's theorem (disambiguation), several theorems

Other uses

* Jacobi Medical Center, New York * Jacobi (grape), another name for the French/German wine grape Pinot Noir Précoce * Jacobi (crater), a lunar impact crater in the southern highlands on the near side of the Moon * , chess software

People

In mathematics

Other uses

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