# Niels Henrik Abel

> He proved what couldn't be done. Abel showed that the quintic equation — a problem mathematicians had tried to crack for over 250 years — had no general solution in radicals, closing a question that had haunted the field since the Renaissance.

*Norwegian mathematician (1802–1829)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Norway
- **Born:** 1802-08-05
- **Died:** 1829-04-06
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Niels Henrik Abel was born in Norway on 5 August 1802 and spent most of his working life in poverty. In six or seven years of feverish activity, he made pioneering contributions across multiple areas of mathematics: he became an innovator in elliptic functions and discovered what are now called Abelian functions. He died of tuberculosis on 6 April 1829, twenty-six years old. Charles Hermite later said Abel had left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years. Legendre, after seeing his work, asked: "What a head the young Norwegian has!"

## Fame
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## Topics
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