Mathematician:Niels Henrik Abel

1802 - 1829

Norwegian mathematician who died tragically young.

Best known for proving the impossibility of solving the general quintic in radicals (Abel–Ruffini Theorem).

Nationality
Norwegian

History

 * Born: August 5, 1802
 * Died: April 6, 1829

Theorems and Definitions

 * Abel's Theorem
 * Abel's Lemma
 * Abel-Ruffini Theorem
 * Abelian Group

Books and Papers

 * "Mémoire sur les équations algébriques ou on démontre l'impossibilité de la résolution de l'équation générale du cinquième degré" (Memoir on algebraic equations, in which the impossibility of solving the general equation of the fifth degree is proven) (1824)