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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Niels Henrik Abel has received more than 793,895 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Niels Henrik Abel is the 15th most popular mathematician (up from 39th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Norway (up from 14th 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

Among mathematicians, Niels Henrik Abel ranks 15 out of 1,004. Before him are Al-Biruni, Hypatia, Bernhard Riemann, Bertrand Russell, Fibonacci, and Pierre de Fermat. After him are Pierre-Simon Laplace, David Hilbert, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Henri Poincaré, Joseph Fourier, and Hero of Alexandria.

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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, Lajos Kossuth, Elias Lönnrot, János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Wilhelm Hauff, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Charles Wheatstone, and Germain Henri Hess. Among people deceased in 1829, Niels Henrik Abel ranks 1. After him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, John Jay, Pope Leo XII, Thomas Young, Humphry Davy, Paul Barras, Maria Anna Mozart, Friedrich Schlegel, François-Joseph Gossec, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, and Alexander Griboyedov.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Niels Henrik Abel ranks 9 out of 1,039. Before him are Ragnar Lodbrok (850), Harald V of Norway (1937), Edvard Grieg (1843), Henrik Ibsen (1828), Anni-Frid Lyngstad (1945), and Knut Hamsun (1859). After him are Fridtjof Nansen (1861), Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832), Harald Fairhair (850), Erik the Red (950), Queen Sonja of Norway (1937), and Thor Heyerdahl (1914).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Norway

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

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