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Niels Henrik Abel
1802 – 1829
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryNiels Henrik Abel was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals. This question was one of the outstanding open problems of his day, and had been unresolved for over 250 years. He was also an innovator in the field of elliptic functions and the discoverer of Abelian functions. He made his discoveries while living in poverty and died at the age of 26 from tuberculosis.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
August 5, 1802
Nedstrand
Date of death
April 6, 1829
Froland
Citizenship
Norway
Occupations & fields
mathematicianuniversity teacher
Awards & honours
Grand prix des sciences mathématiques
Notable works
Abel's binomial theoremabelian groupAbel elliptic functionsAbel's theoremAbel polynomialsAbel–Ruffini theorem
- Field and occupation
- norský matematik
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