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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 743,068 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Niels Henrik Abel is the 39th most popular mathematician (down from 30th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Norway 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 39 out of 823. Before him are Gerolamo Cardano, George Boole, Kurt Gödel, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Ada Lovelace, and Gottlob Frege. After him are Apollonius of Perga, Archytas, Johann Bernoulli, Emmy Noether, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Eudoxus of Cnidus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Niels Henrik Abel ranks 4. Before him are Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, and Archduke Franz Karl of Austria. After him are Lajos Kossuth, János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Elias Lönnrot, Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Wheatstone, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, and Antoine Jérôme Balard. Among people deceased in 1829, Niels Henrik Abel ranks 4. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Pope Leo XII, and Thomas Young. After him are John Jay, Humphry Davy, Maria Anna Mozart, Friedrich Schlegel, Paul Barras, Alexander Griboyedov, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, and François-Joseph Gossec.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Niels Henrik Abel ranks 14 out of 927. Before him are Anni-Frid Lyngstad (1945), Harald Fairhair (850), Rollo (846), Fridtjof Nansen (1861), Erik the Red (950), and Thor Heyerdahl (1914). After him are Olaf II of Norway (993), Olaf Tryggvason (963), Trygve Lie (1896), Queen Sonja of Norway (1937), Eric Bloodaxe (885), and Vidkun Quisling (1887).

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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), Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836), Caspar Wessel (1745), Viggo Brun (1885), Thoralf Skolem (1887), Axel Thue (1863), Bernt Michael Holmboe (1795), Carl Størmer (1874), and Øystein Ore (1899).

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