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Niels Henrik Abel

1802 - 1829

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Niels Henrik Abel ( AH-bəl, Norwegian: [ˌnɪls ˈhɛ̀nːɾɪk ˈɑ̀ːbl̩]; 5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Niels Henrik Abel is the 34th most popular mathematician (down from 15th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Norway (down from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Norwegian Mathematician.

Niels Henrik Abel was a Norwegian mathematician who is most famous for his proof of the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation by radicals.

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Among mathematicians, Niels Henrik Abel ranks 34 out of 1,004. Before him are Srinivasa Ramanujan, Diophantus, Gerolamo Cardano, François Viète, Kurt Gödel, and Luca Pacioli. After him are Brahmagupta, Pope Sylvester II, Georg Cantor, Apollonius of Perga, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, and John Napier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Niels Henrik Abel ranks 3. Before him are Victor Hugo, and Alexandre Dumas. After him are Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, Elias Lönnrot, Lajos Kossuth, János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Edwin Landseer, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Wilhelm Hauff, and Charles Wheatstone. Among people deceased in 1829, Niels Henrik Abel ranks 3. Before him are Pope Leo XII, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. After him are John Jay, Friedrich Schlegel, Humphry Davy, Thomas Young, Maria Anna Mozart, Paul Barras, François-Joseph Gossec, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, and Mauro Giuliani.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Niels Henrik Abel ranks 16 out of 1,039. Before him are Knut Hamsun (1859), Olaf II of Norway (993), Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832), Fridtjof Nansen (1861), Magnus the Good (1024), and Erik the Red (950). After him are Olaf Tryggvason (963), Margaret, Maid of Norway (1283), Harald Fairhair (850), Haakon the Good (918), Thor Heyerdahl (1914), and Haakon IV of Norway (1204).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Norway

Among mathematicians born in Norway, Niels Henrik Abel ranks 1. After him are Sophus Lie (1842), Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (1832), Atle Selberg (1917), Viggo Brun (1885), Caspar Wessel (1745), Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836), Bernt Michael Holmboe (1795), Thoralf Skolem (1887), Carl Størmer (1874), Axel Thue (1863), and Øystein Ore (1899).

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