Niels Henrik Abel
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Niels Henrik Abel
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Niels 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
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Norwegian mathematician (1802–1829)
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2001-08-21T15:45:29Z
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2024-09-01T20:43:53Z
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