Niels Henrik Abel (1802 - 1829)

Born 5 Aug 1802 in Nedstrand, Rogaland, Norway

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Died 6 Apr 1829 at age 26 in Froland, Aust-Agder, Norway

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Biography

Niels Abel is Notable.

Niels was born in 1802.^[1] He passed away in 1829.^[2][3][4] He 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, discoverer of Abelian functions. He made his discoveries while living in poverty and died at the age of 26 from tuberculosis.

Sources

1. ↑ "Norway Baptisms, 1634-1927", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NCZZ-651 : 23 June 2020), Niels Henrich, 1802.
2. ↑ "Norway Church Books, 1815-1930", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:683B-24HC : 4 August 2021), Niels Abell, 1829.
3. ↑ "Norway Burials, 1666-1927", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWP7-2N1 : 20 February 2020), Niels Abell, 1829.
4. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25110682/niels-henrik-abel

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