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Something wrong?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.
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, My work in the future must be devoted entirely to pure mathematics in its abstract meaning.
On the whole, Divergant series are the work of the Devil and it's a Shame that one dares base any Demonstration on them.
On the whole, I do not like the French as well as the Germans; the French are extremely reserved toward strangers... Everybody works for himself without concern for others.
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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!"
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