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Abel, Niels Henrik(Abel, Niels Henrik)
1802 - He was born on the 5th of August in Nedstrand, Norway.
1815 - He entered the cathedral school at Christiania.
1818 - He gave proof of his mathematical genius by his brilliant solutions of the original problems proposed
by Bernt Holmboe.
1821 - He entered Royal Frederick University with a little help from the pension given by the state.
1824 - His first notable work was a proof of the impossibility of solving the quintic equation by radicals.
1825 - State sponsorship enabled him to visit Germany and France.
1826 - He moved to Paris and during a ten-month stay he met the leading mathematicians of France.
1829 - He died on the 6th of April due to tuberculosis at Froland, Norway.
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Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability by Peter Pesic (Hardcover - May 1, 2003) In 1824 a young Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel proved conclusively that algebraic equations of the fifth order are not solvable in radicals. In this book Peter Pesic shows what an important event...  |
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